A joint venture of three defense industry giants has won a $97 million contract for continued work on the Space Based Laser, the Defense Department announced today. Team SBL IFX, as the joint venture is known, consists of Lockheed Martin, Boeing and TRW. The deal awarded today is a modification of a previous contract -- the second increment of the SBL Integrated Flight Experiment project, which is scheduled to last through Nov. 2001, according to DOD. "The project will mature...
