Lockheed, MDA Working Through Aegis Ashore Challenges

By Lee Hudson / August 11, 2014 at 8:50 PM
Lockheed Martin is working with the Missile Defense Agency to combat environmental and technical conditions at Aegis Ashore sites around the globe, according to a company executive. Ric Rushton, sea-based missile defense business development director, told reporters during an Aug. 11 teleconference that different challenges exist in an Aegis system at sea versus an Aegis system that is positioned ashore. "One of those is in fact, the windmill interference and . . . the other is the [radar] frequencies we...

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