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Air Force Awards Lockheed Martin $1.9 Billion For Fifth, Sixth AEHF Satellites

Thursday, January 3rd, 2013

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The Air Force said Dec. 28 it awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $1.9 billion contract to produce the fifth and sixth satellites of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications constellation. The announcement comes one month after AEHF prime contractor Lockheed Martin delivered the system module for the fourth AEHF satellite to subcontractor Northrop Grumman [NOC] for payload integration. AEHF is the Defense Department’s survivable, secure military communications satellite constellation designed to share intelligence during all threat conditions, even after…

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