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Lockheed Selects BAE to Make THAAD Seekers; Barry Yeadon Comments

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BAE Systems has won $81 million in contract funds from Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to produce infrared seekers for a ballistic missile defense system, BAE announced Tuesday.

BAE will produce 143 seekers for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense program, for which Lockheed is the prime contractor (click here for our coverage of recent THAAD awards).

The seeker “detects infrared radiation from the target missile and warhead and generates video guiding the interceptor to the target, ” said Barry Yeardon, THAAD program manager at BAE.

Yeardon added the seeker has an intercept record of nine-for-nine and destroyed two separate targets during a recent test.

BAE also won $5.3 million in initial contract funds from Lockheed to develop tooling and test equipment with the goal of increasing the monthly production rate of the seeker.

Lockheed designed THAAD to defend U.S. and allied soldiers, military assets and metropolitan areas from ballistic missile attacks.

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