Monday, January 30, 2006

Lockheed Gets $2 Billion U.S. Satellite Deal

A Reuters newswire article by Jim Wolf, via The Washington Post, reports that:

Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a $2 billion, 10-year contract to build the backbone of a space-based U.S. Air Force network that would boost greatly communications links to forces worldwide, the Pentagon announced Friday.

Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed beat Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon Co. to lead development of the ground segment of the so-called Transformational Satellite Communications System, or TSAT.

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