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ABL Contractors Highlight Airborne Laser Tracking Feats, Even As Congress Weighs Abandoning ABL As An Operational System

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Monday, June 22nd, 2009

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By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Boeing [BA], Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] industry team said the prototype Airborne Laser (ABL) successfully conducted its first two tracking tests against boosting missile targets. "A truly historic accomplishment," Boeing ABL Vice President and Program Director Mike Rinn said in a teleconference. Their comments on the successful tests came as Congress is weighing President Obama's move to abandon plans to make the laser missile killer an operational…

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