Cavin

UAE officials have identified some elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense "that they think they can do without right now," Dennis Cavin, a Lockheed vice president for missile defense programs, told Reuters.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

Such overseas sales are making missile-defense systems more affordable for the United States, Cavin said.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

Exports of Lockheed's Patriot PAC-3 missiles, for instance, had reduced their costs to U.S. taxpayers by $482 million, or about 11 percent of the $4.2 billion spent on PAC-3 production since 2006, Craig Vanbebber, a Lockheed spokesman, said in an email to Reuters amplifying on Cavin's remarks.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

Cavin said he now expected the UAE to sign a deal with the U.S. government for THAAD, as the Lockheed-built system is known, within a few months, later than he had previously projected.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

Cavin in a February 20 interview with Reuters during an arms bazaar in Abu Dhabi, had predicted that a government-to-government deal for the system would be completed last spring.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

Cavin said he now expected the UAE to sign a deal with the U.S. government for THAAD, as the Lockheed-built system is known, within a few months, later than he had previously projected.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

UAE officials have identified some elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense "that they think they can do without right now," Dennis Cavin, a Lockheed vice president for missile defense programs, told Reuters.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

Such overseas sales are making missile-defense systems more affordable for the United States, Cavin said.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

Exports of Lockheed's Patriot PAC-3 missiles, for instance, had reduced their costs to U.S. taxpayers by $482 million, or about 11 percent of the $4.2 billion spent on PAC-3 production since 2006, Craig Vanbebber, a Lockheed spokesman, said in an email to Reuters amplifying on Cavin's remarks.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011

The contract will be worth less than the roughly $7 billion potential value cited in a formal notification to the U.S. Congress sent in September 2008, Cavin said.

UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011