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National Defense November 2004 Roxana Tiron	Army Revives Anti-Missile System With Novel Maintenance Approach After seeing more failures than successes in its dozen years of development, a newly redesigned and renamed missile defense program now is racing toward its first flight tests.
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The Motley Fool September 25, 2009 Rich Smith	Arms Dealers Flock to Mideast Is the defense industry headed for a downturn? Yesterday's JPMorgan downgrade of L-3 Communications certainly makes it sound that way. But you know the old saying: When the going gets tough, the tough get going ...
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Takes $35 Million Hit On Joint Common Missile As a result of funding cuts, the Army is unable to bring a second industry competitor into one of its largest missile programs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John McHale	Sensors Light Path to Defeating Incoming Military designers are taking advantage of the latest sensor technology and signal processing systems to track and kill incoming enemy missiles.
Popular Mechanics September 17, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	The Flying Future for America's Missile Shield The big news in missile defense this week is that the Obama administration will likely scale back plans to install ground-based missile defense interceptors in Europe that are designed to protect allies and U.S. forces in Europe from long-range Iranian missiles.
Popular Mechanics December 2008 Erik Sofge	The Hardware Behind Missile Protection The Missile Defense Agency has alternatives to deal with varying types of missile attacks.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale	Track It, Destroy It The key to any successful missile-defense shield is the ability of the sensors to track the missile accurately. Recent missile tests prove that an effective missile-defense shield is closer than ever before.
National Defense December 2004 Harold Kennedy	Missile Defense Agency Prepares To Deploy Interceptor Weapons The Missile Defense Agency is pressing ahead with plans to begin deploying a controversial and expensive system to protect the United States and allies against ballistic missiles.
The Motley Fool September 15, 2010 Rich Smith	Biggest Defense Deal Ever? There's money to be made in defense stocks.
National Defense May 2004 Frank Colucci	Smart Missles The Army is beginning to develop sophisticated "smart" missiles and launchers, intended to be deployed in advance of maneuver forces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	First Air-to-Air Missile Defense System Intercepts Boosting Missile A U.S. Air Force F-16 jet fighter launched two air-to-air AIM-9X missiles, which in turn intercepted a boosting rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range. The event marked the first time that an aircraft made a missile-defense intercept.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	Lockheed Martin Awards Data Recording Systems Contract to VMETRO Designers at the Lockheed Martin Corp. Missiles and Space segment needed data recording systems to support their work with the Aegis ballistic missile defense weapon system. They found their solution from the Vortex VME Open Data Recording platform from VMETRO Inc.
IndustryWeek January 11, 2012	Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Lufkin Operations: IW Best Plants Profile 2011 Plant leaders, employees ensure quality products during major expansion.
National Defense December 2005 Harold Kennedy	Pentagon Eyes Growing Short-Range Missile Threat Defense Department officials are warning that terrorists soon could strike U.S. cities with short-range missiles.
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National Defense March 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Sea-Based Missile Defense Scores Hits, But Will it Work in a Real Attack? There is still one major weakness in U.S. missile defense systems that neither the Navy nor the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency has yet been able to overcome -- the ability to discern real warheads from harmless decoys.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009	Electro-optics Brief Digital video recorder system selected for Sikorsky helicopters... CACI wins order to support U.S. Army forward looking infrared systems... Dilas introduces fiber-coupled diode laser bar... etc.
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	From Space to Sea, New Radar Tech Could Shift Military Might This month Lockheed Martin released a 280-word statement from its radar research headquarters in New Jersey announcing a breakthrough test of an advanced radar platform.
The Motley Fool November 23, 2009 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, no quarter will be asked, none given among these defense industry stocks.
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BusinessWeek January 22, 2007 Gene G. Marcial	Lockheed: Rocketing Up Worries that democrats in Congress may roll back defense outlays doesn't faze fans of Lockheed Martin.
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Proliferation of Cruise Missiles Sparks Concern About U.S. Air Defenses The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan saw the rise of improvised explosive devices as the ultimate asymmetric weapon. Future conflicts, strategists warn, could expose U.S. forces on land and at sea to a deadly weapon that is extremely hard to detect: cruise missiles.
National Defense May 2005 Roxana Tiron	Gulf Nation Focuses on Training, Educating Air Crews Close to fielding one of the most advanced air forces in the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates is pushing to match the aircrews' proficiency with their sophisticated equipment.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005	Czech Army picks Raytheon-Lockheed Martin Javelin missile The Czech Republic Army will use the Javelin weapon system in future battles, according to an export agreement by the U.S. government.
InternetNews May 12, 2004 Colin C. Haley	AT&T Locks in Lockheed's Data Building on a longterm relationship, AT&T has signed a 3-year, $60 million contract with Lockheed Martin to provide voice and data networking services.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	Israel Plans Short-Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRMD) Raytheon Company and Rafael Armament Development Authority have been selected by the Israel Ministry of Defense' Defense Research and development Directorate to develop a new terminal missile defense interceptor to defeat a variety of low-cost, short-range ballistic missile threats.
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The Motley Fool October 1, 2009 Dave Mock	A Big Upgrade for Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin gets a big upgrade from many top-performing Motley Fool analysts.
The Motley Fool May 3, 2005 Brian Gorman	Marriage of Convenience Lockheed Martin and Boeing to join forces on U.S. government rocket contracts.
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Defense Update Issue 2, 2006	Israels Strategic Defense Programs Israel's multi-layered anti-ballistic defense program known as "Choma" (Barrier wall in Hebrew) was developed to mitigate ballistic missile threats.
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