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PEO LMW Sees Steady Growth In Counter IED, Maritime Surveillance FMS

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Friday, September 10th, 2010

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The Navy's Program Executive Office Littoral and Mine Warfare (PEO LMW) has seen a steady growth in foreign interest in technologies ranging from efforts to counter improvised explosive devices (IED) to maritime surveillance systems, according to a service official. Japan and South Korea, for example, are showing an interest in acquiring the next generation Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) systems. The effort is run out of the mine warfare program office (PMS-495) and ITT [ITT] is the prime contractor for AMCM.…

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