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MDA Ahead of Schedule on Missile Defense Communications The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is ahead of schedule in building the communications support system for the national missile defense system, Space News reported Monday (see GSN, Sept. 24). Agency officials met Aug. 21 in Los Angeles with executives from Boeing, the lead systems integrator for the U.S. missile defense system, to mark the completion of a 32,000-kilometer fiber-optic network that will connect all command and management aspects of the program. The fiber-optic project is the largest in the world, according to the agency. Lockheed Martin is the chief contractor for integrating missile defense information technology. Officials from both defense contractors are working to have the information system up and running in time for missile defense system’s scheduled 2004 deployment. The Bush administration hopes to have the first stages of a working missile defense system in Alaska and California by that time. “We will be ready,” said David Kier, vice president and managing director of missile defense for Lockheed Martin (Randy Barrett, Space News, Sept. 22).
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