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Marine Cargo UAS Bids Come From Two Different Directions

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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

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Both a Lockheed Martin [LMT]-Kaman [KAMN] team and Boeing [BA] are excited and comfortable with their respective proposals submitted recently for the Marine Corps' Cargo unmanned aircraft system (UAS) services request, however their entries and approaches could not be much more different. "I don't doubt that either competitor can do the job, the thing about it is that we came at it from opposite directions," Michelle Evans, vice president, business development for Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, told sister…

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