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Raytheon’s SM-6 to Begin Sea-Based Tests

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Monday, May 10th, 2010

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By B.C. Kessner Raytheon's [RTN] Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) begins sea-based flight testing this month, keeping the program on track for initial operational capability (IOC) in 2011, the company said Monday. "We're going to sea, and we're going to sea next week," Daniel Lambert, the company's senior manager for SM-6 business development, told reporters recently during the Navy League's annual Sea, Air, Space conference at National Harbor. Dubbed the Extended range Air Defense Missile, the SM-6 is being developed to target…

Congress

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