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European And Asian Firms Can Join Missile Defense Industry: NG CEO
An unprecedented opportunity now exists for the international community to participate in the development of a global, collective missile-defense system, Northrop Grumman CEO, President, and Chairman Ronald Sugar said here today at the International Missile Defense Symposium hosted by the US Missile Defense Agency and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Before an international audience, Dr. Sugar addressed how the development of a missile-defense capability can change the "calculus of proliferation." In his address he examined three important aspects of missile defense:
+ Missile defense's role in strengthening diplomatic efforts to stop proliferation;
+ The essential need for a layered architecture - including boost, mid-course and terminal defenses; and
+ The extraordinary opportunity now existing for international cooperation.
On the diplomatic front, a layered capability provides leverage to "dissuade, defend and add value to deterrence," Dr. Sugar said. It helps to remove an aggressor's ability to hold democratic nations hostage, split alliances or deter a response to regional dangers. "We need multiple intercept opportunities against all ranges of missile threats in every phase of flight," Dr. Sugar said. "A layered approach drives the probabilities so greatly in our favor as to complicate the job of any enemy." He added that international attention must now be turned to building and deploying a boost phase shoot-down capability, now that mid-course defenses are moving forward. "The US Missile Defense Agency is currently looking at two technologies. One is directed energy weapons - lasers - carried aboard aircraft. The other is a system of hyper-velocity rockets that catch up to enemy missiles soon after launch. Both systems are complementary, providing layers within layers," Sugar said. Dr. Sugar said the new boost-phase capability is the defense community's opportunity to move toward internationalization of missile defense, at both the industry and government level. "Our hope is that cooperation at the industry level will encourage increasing participation on the part of other governments, moving toward a new regime of 'mutually assured protection." Related Links Northrop Grumman SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Mercury Selected By LockMart For Joint Common Missile Program
Chelmsford MA (SPX) Jul 15, 2004Mercury Computer Systems announced Wednesday that Lockheed Martin will use Mercury's tactical version of its RACE++ Series commercial off-the- shelf (COTS) multicomputers in the guidance electronics unit of the Joint Common Missile (JCM) system.
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