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Air Force, Industry Pursuing Maritime Version of JASSM Missile

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Monday, June 6th, 2011

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The Air Force requirements shop is working the details for a potential new-start program to field a maritime version of the air service's venerable Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), with plans to issue a formal solicitation later this year, a senior program official said recently. "We received interest in pursuing a maritime version of JASSM to strike ships," Lockheed Martin's [LMT] JASSM Program Director Alan Jackson told reporters during a telephone briefing recently. While declining to go into any specifics…

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