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Showing Original Post only (View all)Boeing wins $3.48 billion U.S. missile defense contract [View all]
Boeing Co beat out Lockheed Martin to retain its position as the prime contractor for the U.S. long-range missile shield, the Pentagon said on Friday.
The U.S. Defense Department said it was awarding Boeing a $3.48 billion, seven-year contract to develop, test, engineer and manufacture missile defense systems.
A team led by Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co had vied with Boeing to expand and maintain the Ground-based Midcourse Defense, or GMD, hub of layered antimissile protection.
Boeing partnered with Northrop Grumman Corp to retain the work.
More at: http://news.yahoo.com/boeing-wins-3-48-billion-u-missile-defense-020950294.html
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what the carnival loses on the swings, the carnival makes on the roundabouts.
marasinghe
Dec 2011
#1
Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas and Boeing own the US. They didn't win anything.
Monk06
Dec 2011
#2
I can't ever forgive those McDonnell clowns on the board for systematically tearing apart
Blue_Tires
Jan 2012
#43
Have you never heard of building something new? We succeeded in going to the moon,
pnwmom
Dec 2011
#9
That's an absurdity, unlike how threatening & insulting others causes them to react as an enemy.
patrice
Jan 2012
#38
Deflection. We were talking about foreign policy based upon insults & threats. I'm sorry you
patrice
Jan 2012
#41
"You probably . . . " think I'm dumb enough to go for this feint. Here's a surprise for you,
patrice
Jan 2012
#44
The Machine War cometh: Drones -> anti-Drones/Missiles -> Missile-shield -> anti-Missile-shields ->?
patrice
Dec 2011
#24