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Defense contractor Lockheed Martin will soon begin testing a $375 million missile-defense radar facility that’s nearing completion at Clear Air Force Station.

The director of Lockheed Martin’s Missile Defense and Space Surveillance Radar Programs told reporters Monday that the company will begin testing the Long Range Discrimination Radar, or LRDR, this spring.

“Like (in) the beginning of May, we’ll start … to do some initial kind of light-off, power-up and all that to make sure everything is functioning properly,” Chandra Marshall said in a Monday teleconference. She said workers have begun installing 10 large sensors called “panels” to the LRDR’s main structure, the mission-control facility.

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