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Kei programme moves forward.


Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S.  recently demonstrated two key battle management capabilities of the US Air Force's new Kinetic Energy Interceptors The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) is a planned U.S. missile defense program whose goal is to design, develop, and deploy kinetic energy-based, mobile, ground and sea-launched missiles that can intercept and destroy enemy ballistic missiles during their boost phase.  (Kei) missile-defence programme. The first test demonstrated the ability of the Kei command and control, battle management and communications (C2BMC C2BMC Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications ) system's permanent US site to process data from classified sensors, downgrade the data and distribute it to a Kei battery in the field. The Kei's C2BMC system will reside in Colorado and will be known as the Continental US Kei. Northrop Grumman also tested the mobile C2BMC system, which is housed in a 42-foot trailer, and tracked a live launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base Vandenberg Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 3,456 acres (1,399 hectares), SW Calif., near Lompoc; chief Pacific coast launch site for military satellites.  in California.
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Publication:Armada International
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 1, 2005
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