General Dynamics is installing HSS gear on Navy ships, including one over the captain's chair on the bridge of the U.S.S. Winston S. Churchill.

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Best of all, thanks to the enormous investment the U.S. Navy and its counterparts have made in the ships, sensors, communication gear, and other infrastructure needed for sea based missile defenses, the costs of putting such a capability in place are a fraction of those associated with other alternatives.

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Fearful of alienating retailers by selling on its own Web site, it instead inventories and ships its own and rivals' gear for dot.com merchants.

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"Collisions with ships are the number one cause of mortality, and entanglement in fishing gear is the number two cause, " Lecky said.

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According to the report, programs such as Portal Shield "will facilitate the integration of chemical detectors into personal warfighter gear" as well as installation of the sensors on aircraft, ships, armored vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

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