28 Nov - NATO on track for 2010 theatre missile defenceMissile (large)

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28.11.2006 

On 28 November, a contract has been signed that puts NATO on track for having, by 2010, a system to protect troops on missions against ballistic missiles.

NATO selected in September 2006 an international consortium led by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to build an Integration Test Bed for the Alliance’s future Active Layered Theatre Missile Defence (ALTBMD) capability.

After two months of negotiations, ALTBMD Programme Manager, General (Ret) Billard, and SAIC contracting Officer, Mr Robert Larrick, signed the contract on the first day of NATO’s Riga Summit, in the presence of NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, and NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, Marshall Billingslea.

Once fully implemented, the system will be able to help protect troops in a specific area against short and medium range ballistic missiles by intercepting them.

This is one of three programmes that NATO is pursuing in the area of missile defence.

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