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Boeing Protests $1.09 Billion GOES-R Contract Award Given To Rival Lockheed

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Monday, December 22nd, 2008

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For Boeing, This Is Second Recent Protest Of A Major Contract Award, After Boeing Successfully Protested Tanker Plane Contract The Boeing Co. [BA], having won an earlier protest this year against a $35 billion tanker plane contract the Air Force awarded to rival Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC], now has protested a $1.09 billion weather satellite contract that NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded to Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]. That prompted NASA to issue a stop-work order…

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