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Northrop Grumman, MDA Complete End-to-End BMD System Simulation

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Monday, August 30th, 2010

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The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Northrop Grumman [NOC] have finalized verification and validation of the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Performance Assessment 2009 (PA09). "Performance Assessment 2009 was a great success," said Karen Williams, vice president of Air and Missile Defense Systems for Northrop Grumman's Information Systems sector. "Through disciplined and rigorous integration and more than 2,500 test executions, we created a baseline configuration for 36 distinct scenarios. PA09 is an end-to-end system-level simulation conducted to analyze how…

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