U.S. Delays Pivotal Military Satellite Project
Jim Wolf writes for Reuters:
U.S. plans to award a multibillion-dollar satellite communications contract for a pivotal project are being delayed a year until 2008 following budget cuts, Defense Department officials said Monday.
Teams led by Lockheed Martin and Boeing are vying to build an initial five laser-linked satellites to expand space-based communications systems for the military.
The program is designed to create a kind of Internet in the sky, extending high-bandwidth satellite links to forces deployed worldwide. It would hook them into the so-called Global Information Grid, the Pentagon's voice, video and data network.
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