Boeing Sees No Major Hurdles for Deploying Defenses

“No showstoppers” are expected ahead of the potential Sept. 30 deployment date for the U.S. Ground-based Midcourse Defense, a Boeing official said yesterday (see GSN, July 13).

“From a technology standpoint, we see no showstoppers,” Marty Coyne, senior manager, staff operations with the system’s prime contractor, said in an interview with Defense Daily. “We see no showstoppers with deploying the capability,” he added

The Fort Greely, Alaska, missile defense base has seen its infrastructure, missile field and silos prepared, Coyne said, and Boeing was “completing the integration and testing and deployment of the interceptors” (Ann Roosevelt, Defense Daily, July 14).

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