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Business/Financial

Lockheed Martin, Black & Veatch Team To Help Utilities Pursue Smart Grid Funds

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Thursday, August 20th, 2009

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the global engineering firm Black & Veatch (BV) yesterday said they have teamed to offer utility companies a range of tools such as information technology cyber security know-how, to help these companies shape their projects and request grants in pursuit of the Department of Energy's (DoE) new Smart Grid Investment Grant Program. The grant program is part of DoE's Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Recovery Plan, which has $4.5 billion available for modernization of the nation's…

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