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Honeywell Protests $1.26 Billion NASA Contract Award To ITT

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Monday, October 27th, 2008

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Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. [HON] filed a protest last week with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), objecting to NASA awarding a $1.26 billion contract to ITT Corp. [ITT]. NASA selected ITT to perform telemetry, tracking and command services for near-Earth missions under a Space Communications Network Services contract. (Please see Space & Missile Defense Report, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008.) If GAO upholds NASA in its contract award, ITT Advanced Engineering and Sciences of Herndon, Va., would support NASA Space and…

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