"...Brig. Gen. Roger Mathews, retired Maj. Gen. John Holly and Gregory Kee cut the ribbon at Lockheed Martin's ceremony opening the MEADS Battle Management Test and Integration Facility in Huntsville in 2010. Company officials are hopeful the missile defense program will be spared cancellation by Defense Secretary Robert Gates...."
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MDA plans work-force expansion "...The Missile Defense Agency is expanding its work force in Huntsville by about 200 jobs annually over the next three to four years, according to its director, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly. ..."
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Engineer helped astronauts reach the moon safely "...As chief of calibration at the Army Missile Defense in Huntsville, Ala., during the 1960s and early '70s, he helped make sure that the Saturn V rocket developed under Wernher von Braun at NASA's nearby Marshall Space Flight Center was safe to launch astronauts into space on several missions, including 1969's historic moon landing...."
Reference: www.heraldtribune.com .
SMDC official admits illegal lobbying "...A Huntsville missile defense official convicted of taking $1.6 million in bribes admitted to not only squeezing contractors for kickbacks, but illegally lobbying Congress for unnecessary work to keep the money flowing and ..."
Reference: www.al.com.
