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US Air Force eyes big satellite contract this fall

Posted By Tim McDowell On September 18, 2008 @ 10:32 am In State & Local, HLD | No Comments

The U.S. Air Force still plans to award Boeing Co. or Lockheed Martin Corp. a contract worth billions of dollars this fall to build a group of advanced military communications satellites, the general in charge of Air Force Space Command said on Tuesday. The general told reporters that the future of the Transformational Satellite program for which both companies are bidding was entwined with that of another program, the Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite program, run by Lockheed.

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