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LSAT Maturing Toward Demo

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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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By B.C. Kessner QUANTICO, Va.--Textron [TXT] AAI executives last week said the Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) program continues to mature and is approaching readiness for a live demonstration with troops. "We aim to get the cased telescopic ammunition and light machine gun to technology readiness level (TRL) 7 and conduct an operational demo with soldiers," David Phillips, AAI's vice president for business development and advanced systems, told Defense Daily at the Modern Day Marine Expo here. AAI is developing…

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