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Lockheed Martin Adds Partners For Pursuit of MDA Contract

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Monday, August 30th, 2010

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] said it added some 11 companies to its team in the pursuit of the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract. MDA has said it will issue a final request for proposals for GMD Development and Sustainment this year and award the contract in 2011. The contract will entail development, manufacturing, test, training, operations support and sustainment support of the GMD element. Lockheed Martin already named strategic partner Raytheon [RTN] and partners…

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