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Lockheed Wins Air Force Computer Network Consolidation Contract.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Walsh, Chris
Sep. 21--Lockheed Martin Corp. made it official Wednesday: It has won a coveted $1.5 billion Air Force contract to consolidate the military's space, air and ground computer networks into a common system at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs.
News of the contract surfaced Tuesday.
Lockheed, a defense contractor with 1,500 Springs employees, was competing against TRW Inc., which also has a large local presence, for the Integrated Space Command and Control (ISC-2) contract.
Under the contract, Lockheed and several other companies will combine the military's 40 separate systems into one network that will allow military leaders to instantly view battlefields around the world.
At present, the military uses dozens of different, even...
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