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Lockheed to mark milestone

Camden News

April 26, 2010

 

    Lockeed Martin Missiles and Fire Control Camden Operations will mark the delivery of the 10,000th Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rock to the U.S. Army at the company’s Highland Industrial Park location at 10 a.m. Tuesday. According to a news release from Lockheed, Col. David J. Rice, U.S. Army program manager for Precision Fires, Rocket and Missile Systems and Col. Tony Daskevich, Army capability manager for Field Artillery Rocket and Missiles will join Scott Arnold, Lockheed Martin vice president for Precision Fires programs and local site director Glenn David Woods at the event.
   GMLRS is an all-weather, precision strike, artillery rocket system that achieves greater range and precision accuracy requiring fewer rockets to defeat targets and limiting collateral damage, according the news release.
   GMLRS can be used against counter-fire, air defense, light materiel and personnel targets. The system incorporates a GPS aided inertial guidance package integrated on a product improved rocket body, the release stated. Lockheed Martin’s Camden Operations, which employs approximately 450 people at its Highland Industrial Park facilities, is the final assembly site for the Multiple Launch Rocket System line of launchers and precision-strike rockets, the transformational High Mobility Artillery Rocket System or HIMARS launcher and the Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3 Missile.