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MDA Awards Services Contracts Worth Up To $1.6 Billion Combined
1. Turner Brinton
2. 08/31/10 03:57 PM ET
3. in Military
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded task-order contracts worth up to $1.6 billion in total to five companies for advisory services related to ballistic missile defense testing, the Defense Department announced Aug. 30. ...
DigitalGlobe Awards $307M in Contracts for WorldView-3 Satellite
1. Peter B. de Selding
2. 08/31/10 10:08 AM ET
3. in Contracts
Commercial remote-sensing firm DigitalGlobe on Aug. 30 announced it has signed contracts valued at $307 million with Ball Aerospace and ITT Industries to build the WorldView-3 satellite’s platform and imager, respectively, with a launch scheduled in mid-2 ...
AEHF-1 Deployment To Take Several Months Longer than Planned
1. Turner Brinton
2. 08/30/10 05:27 PM ET
3. in Military
A propulsion system glitch aboard the U.S. Air Force’s first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) secure communications satellite has forced the service to devise a new orbit-raising plan utilizing smaller thrusters that will delay the craft’s arrival ...

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