Air Force to award GPS III satellite contract

May 9, 2008 by Dagpotter · 1 Comment
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin, Satellites, U.S. Air Force, space 

The GPS III satellite had a successful DAB recently which allowed Mr. Young, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OSD(AT&L) to allow the contract award. See an article here. As part of this authorization, though, he directed that the requirements be frozen as to what was presented at the DAB. The contract could be worth $1.8 B, and will go to either Boeing or Lockheed Martin. The award could come early next week.

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Boeing Plans to Bid on Significant Military Satellite Work

December 26, 2007 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, U.S. Air Force 

In a conference call with journalists on 24 December, Boeing stated that they are expecting the US Government to contract for $15-17 billion worth of satellites in the next year. The new Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems group is confident that they understand where previous satellite programs went wrong, and can keep on cost and schedule on these new contracts. In what is also rather neat, Boeing has been using the DirecTV satellites to test technology that will go on the military communication ones. See a good article here.

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