That will include deploying Raytheon's antimissile missiles aboard Aegis destroyers and land-based Patriot batteries.
That will include deploying Lockheed Martin's electronics and Raytheon's antimissile missiles aboard Aegis destroyers and land-based Patriot batteries.
National Security Adviser Jim Jones, a former NATO commander, knows how important the antimissile system is to the alliance.
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The antimissile business probably enjoys an operating margin (net before depreciation, interest and taxes) of between 30% and 40%.
Japan aims to begin deploying its antimissile system by 2007 and to have a fully operational two-tier shield in place by 2011.
Like some earlier accords, such as the 1972 American-Soviet agreement curbing antimissile defenses, the test ban treaty represents an anachronistic approach to arms control.
These revelations represent both a challenge and an opportunity for proponents of effective antimissile protection for the American people and their forces and allies abroad.
The weapons package includes antimissile systems sold by Raytheon Co.
The ABM Treaty imposes no such limitations on nonstrategic antimissile weapons.
It concluded that an antimissile shield could protect Japan but then gathered dust until the U.S. pressed Japan to commit to the program during talks in 2003.
Japan's aggressive embrace of antimissile defenses is forcing the nation to undergo the most wrenching revamp of its military posture since the end of World War II.
But now Japan is having to overcome its pacifist past and, in cooperation with the U.S., clear the technological hurdles that have left America's own multibillion-dollar antimissile program mired.
Apparently, the idea will be to exercise its radar with Israel's indigenous missile defense capabilities - adding additional test data to a similar U.S. experiment conducted last month while potentially considerably augmenting Israel's antimissile protection.
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As a result of the outlays made to acquire and operate scores of Aegis ships over the past three decades, the U.S. now has in place much of the infrastructure necessary to begin providing global antimissile defenses.
What is more, the inherent mobility of the Navy's Aegis cruisers and destroyers - of which there are now more than 60 in the fleet - offers the possibility of affording antimissile defenses not only to the territory of the United States but to our allies and American forces overseas, as well.
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