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Boeing Disciplines Workers; Air Force Shifts More Launches.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003
By Christopher Boyd, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 13--Boeing Co. said Friday that it had taken action against some of its employees after conducting an internal investigation into allegations that some workers had committed corporate espionage against Lockheed Martin Corp.
The company did not say what the actions were, but spokesman Walt Rice said the probe involved the 1998 competition with Lockheed to build a new generation of heavy-payload rockets for the military. Boeing workers allegedly had obtained thousands of pages of Lockheed documents, some of them labeled sensitive, related to the competition.
In July, the Air Force suspended Boeing from competing for satellite-launch contracts and...
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