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		<title>Third Meads Battle Manager Arrives In Huntsville For Integration Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin has begun integration testing on the third completed Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) battle manager at its facility in Huntsville, Ala. Integration testing on the third battle manager will continue throughout 2012 in support of a ballistic missile intercept test planned at White Sands Missile Range in 2013. Two other battle managers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and German Minister of Defense Thomas de Maiziere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: (Inaudible.) Mr. Secretary, could you give us an update on the American commitment to the MEADS (Medium Extended Air Defense System) air defense system? The U.S. seems reluctant lately to stick to the project till the end of the development phase. And maybe &#8212; (continues in German). SEC. PANETTA: This came up in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Fails to Undo President Obama’s Damage on Missile</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract: In passing the FY 2012 defense authorization and appropriations bills, Congress missed an ideal opportunity to reverse the damage that the Obama Administration inflicted on U.S. missile defense programs in 2010. Congress specifically failed to move the U.S. toward a more defensive nuclear posture, protect U.S. missile defense options against the President’s arms control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEADS Conducts Successful First Flight Test At White Sands Missile Range</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) successfully completed its first flight test today at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) MEADS Certified Missile Round was employed during the test along with the MEADS lightweight launcher and battle manager. The test demonstrated an unprecedented over-the-shoulder launch of the MSE missile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEADS Demonstrates Advanced Plug-And-Fight Capabilities In Integration Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) system elements have successfully performed a simulated engagement against real-world air and representative missile threats demonstrating MEADS’ plug-and-fight capabilities. In the simulated test, the MEADS battle manager demonstrated a revolutionary network-centric open architecture that allows any combination of sensors and launchers to be organized into single or multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Armaments Directors Approve MEADS Program Continuation Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Armaments Directors of Germany, Italy and the United States approved a contract amendment that funds two flight intercept tests of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). The amended contract also provides for a Launcher Missile Characterization Test and a Sensor Characterization Test before the MEADS Design and Development contract ends in 2014. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightweight MEADS Launcher Arrives at White Sands for Initial Flight Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO/MUNICH/ROME, October 24, 2011 – After completing extensive system integration testing, the first Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) launcher has arrived at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., ready to demonstrate its advanced capabilities. The lightweight MEADS launcher is easily transportable, tactically mobile and capable of rapid reload. It carries up to eight PAC-3 Missile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Meads Battle Manager Begins Integration Testing In the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEADS International (MI) has begun integration testing on the first completed Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) battle manager at the MEADS Verification Facility in Orlando, Fla. The MEADS battle manager controls a revolutionary network-centric open architecture that allows any combination of sensors and launchers to be organized into a single air and missile defense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEADS Program, US Could Save Real Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent articles from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a group of U.S. taxwatch organizations continue to distort the financial benefits of the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program. We wholeheartedly agree with their objectives to make taxpayer spending more productive, but ours is a larger vision about how that might be done. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEADS Integrated Launcher Electronics System Completes First Simulated Missile Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla., September 13, 2011 – The Medium Extended Air Defense System’s (MEADS) Integrated Launcher Electronics System (ILES) recently executed a simulated missile launch, marking another in a series of significant test accomplishments. The successful ILES test moves the MEADS program closer to its first major test event in November at White Sands Missile Range, [...]]]></description>
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