The Office of the Secretary of Defense intends to announce the winner of a multibillion-dollar next-generation communications satellite constellation contract "as soon as possible," OSD said in a statement released today. "The TSAT [Transformational Communications Satellite System] award date [is] undetermined at this point, but we intend to make the award as soon as possible," OSD spokesman Chris Isleib said in an e-mail. "We are in discussions with the Joint Staff, and are awaiting requirements changes to key performance parameters...