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Air Force Shuts Down TSAT Competition; New RFP To Be Issued For SatCom System

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Monday, January 5th, 2009

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The Air Force shut down the existing Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) program competition without awarding a contract. Instead, the restructured contest now moves back to square one, with the air service issuing a new draft request for proposal, or RFP, for the first increment of the multi- billion-dollar TSAT system, which would be a scaled-back system. The competition has seen Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the largest defense contractor, pitted against The Boeing Co. [BA], the second-largest defense company, in preliminary…

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