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Solid Rocket Motor Industry Too Big, Pentagon Says

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Monday, August 2nd, 2010

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By Marina Malenic LONDON--The U.S. solid rocket motor industrial base must be consolidated after years of continued overcapacity, the Pentagon's top industrial policy official said recently. "We are looking at ways to right-size the industry," Brett Lambert told reporters at the Farnborough Airshow on July 19. "We should have squeezed out that capacity 10 years ago." Lambert added, however, that the department intends to provide a minimum level of support so that key knowledge and skills resident in the sector…

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