Army Terminates Spy-Plane Contract, Redirects Remaining Funds to Study Tri-Service Effort

By Ashley Roque, Jason Sherman / January 12, 2006 at 5:00 AM
The Army announced today it is terminating Lockheed Martin's $879 million system design and development contract for the Aerial Common Sensor program. The service will use the remaining contract funds to explore options for a tri-service intelligence-gathering aircraft program, according to an Army source. "After carefully evaluating Lockheed's proposals, we decided that the prudent course of action at this time was to terminate the contract and bring the various players -- industry, the acquisition and user communities, the Navy and...

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