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MDA Buys SM-3 Block IB Motors To Keep Aerojet’s Production Moving

Monday, August 27th, 2012

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The Missile Defense Agency has ordered 14 Standard Missile-3 Block 1B Throttling Divert and Attitude Control System (TDACS) this summer is to keep supplier Aerojet’s [GY] production processes moving, according to an agency spokesman. MDA spokesman Richard Lehner said recently in an email Aerojet has been approved to build more TDACS motors for the SM-3 Block IB, but the “real” rate production decision isn’t until next year. Lehner said the agency’s order of the Block 1B TDACS is designed to…

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