Lockheed Martin, BAE Announce Missile Defense Partnership

By Thomas Duffy / June 24, 2003 at 5:00 AM
Lockheed Martin and United Kingdom-based BAE Systems have signed an agreement to team on missile defense programs, with their initial area sea-based systems, the companies announced today. The move is in line with a government-to-government framework agreement the United States and the United Kingdom sealed June 12, according to David Bond of BAE Systems. That agreement will provide the United Kingdom further understanding of the U.S. missile defense system and allow it to make decisions in the future, he said...

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