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Lockheed Martin NCR Award Worth Up To $83 Million

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, June 23rd, 2014

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Lockheed Martin NCR Award Worth Up To $83 Million

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] has received a potential five-year, $82.5 million follow-on contract to provide continued support to the Defense Department’s National Cyber Range (NCR), which allows cyber security tools to be evaluated and malicious software code to be introduced and studied. The Pentagon on May 23 announced a $14.2 million award to Lockheed Martin for the NCR but the Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI), which serves as the contracting activity, put the overall value…

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