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Air Force Extends Lockheed Martin Contract On AEHF Satellite Program

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Thursday, December 15th, 2011

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The Air Force has extended Lockheed Martin's [LMT] engineering support contract for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite program. The $312 million contract modification that runs through the end of 2014 calls on Lockheed Martin to provide in-orbit anomaly resolution and investigation, flight and payload software sustainment, mission control familiarization and developmental testing. AEHF is the follow-on program to Milstar, which is a five-satellite constellation communications system. AEHF is designed to provide survivable, global, protect and jam resistant communications…

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