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Lockheed Martin Delivers MICS Hardware Essential For MEADS Integration

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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently delivered the first two intra-fire unit message routing subsystems essential to Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Internal Communications Subsystem (MICS) hardware components that will support upcoming integration tests, an executive from the tri-national effort said. "MICS is a key part of our design, we knew the system was going to be wireless, that it was going to be plug and play, and knew it needed to be a network distributed architecture," Steve Barnoske, president of…

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