Lockheed Martin Awarded $500 Million AEHF Contract Modification

By Thomas Duffy / May 22, 2002 at 5:00 AM
Lockheed Martin today received a $500 million modification to its contract for the development and demonstration phase of the Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency system. AEHF is the Pentagon's next-generation satellite communications system. In an announcement today, the Defense Department said Lockheed Martin has been granted a $498 million modification to an AEHF letter contract signed last November. The purpose of the modification is to increase the not-to-exceed limit of the contract from $2.6 billion to $3.1 billion, DOD...

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