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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) – Lockheed Martin Corp
on Tuesday was awarded an Air Force contract worth about $101
million over a decade, to modify the U.S. defense weather
satellite program, the U.S. Department of Defense said.
The contract work will be performed by Lockheed Martin Space
System Corp in Sunnyvale, California, and is scheduled to be
completed by October 2020.
The program collects various weather, oceanographic and
solar data for the Defense Department, and is managed by the Air
Force Space Command. It has been in operation for about 50
years.
