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NATO Moves Closer To Theater Ballistic Missile Defense Capability

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Monday, February 18th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt NATO inaugurated a special testing facility in The Hague, Netherlands -- a milestone in the multi-year alliance project to protect deployed operating forces from ballistic missile attack. The integration test bed -- ready nine months ahead of schedule -- will be inaugurated by NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, Peter Flory, the alliance said in a statement. In 2006, NATO signed a contract with SAIC [SAI] to build an Integration Test Bed for the Alliance's future…

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