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Homeland Security

Raytheon’s SM-3 Block IIA Missile Completes PDR

Friday, March 30th, 2012

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Raytheon’s [RTN] Standard Missile-3 Block IIA variant completed its preliminary design review (PDR) and is now ready to move into the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase, according to a company executive. Raytheon Deputy Program Director for SM-3 Jack Ransbotham told Defense Daily in a telephone interview yesterday he expects the green light from the U.S. government to proceed into the CDR phase “in the next few weeks.” Raytheon recently completed the PDR of the missile’s throttleable divert and attitude control…

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