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Northrop Advocates KEI’s ‘Strategic Flexibility’ As Missile Defense Budget Set to Contract

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Thursday, February 19th, 2009

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By Marina Malenic With the expectation that the Obama administration will reduce the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) outlays in upcoming budget cycles, some industry officials are advocating increased expenditure on boost-phase missile intercept systems. "We don't know exactly where this administration will go with missile defense, but it's hard to believe they'll be as supportive as the last president," said Larry Dodgen, Northrop Grumman's [NOC] vice president for the missile defense division of the company's Mission Systems sector. "MDA has…

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