By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command (USASMDC/ARSTRAT) are preparing to fly a High Altitude Airship (HAA) demonstrator this summer that is envisioned to provide a platform for surveillance, communications relay, according to officials. "It's small compared to the [proposed] operational HAA but it's still a fairly large size airship as contemporary airships go," Ron Browning, HAA director of business development for Lockheed Martin Maritime Sensors and Systems, told Defense…
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