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Lockheed Martin Receives Contract To Upgrade Air Ops System for Joint Theater

Gally Articola

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] was awarded a contract to modernize the Joint Air Force Component Commanders’ system for generating air task orders. The Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) essentially controls everything that flies in operations for the Air Force and the Navy including fighters, bombers tankers, unmanned aerial vehicles, helicopters and cruise missiles. The five-year, $249 million contract will update the software that controls the system, which Lockheed Martin called the “engine of the Air Operations Center” in a release…

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