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Lockheed Martin ‘Bullish’ On Long Range Discrimination Radar 2020 Goal

Pat Host

Thursday, October 29th, 2015

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A key Lockheed Martin [LMT] executive is “bullish” on the company meeting a 2020 operational testing (OT) goal for its newly awarded Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) program.Lockheed Martin Vice President of Integrated Warfare Systems and Sensors Brad Hicks told reporters during a press conference in Washington Thursday the radar’s discrimination technology is already pretty mature. The challenge, Hicks said, will be integrating the massive radar. Once complete, the two-phased array radar will be 30 feet tall and roughly the…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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Congress

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Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

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