United Launch gets deal worth $505 million
By Roger Fillion, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published January 24, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
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Centennial-based United Launch Alliance won a Pentagon contract worth as much as $505.3 million to provide rocket launch services for the federal agency in charge of the nation's spy satellites.
ULA is the joint rocket-launch venture of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co.
ULA will provide three satellite launches for the the National Reconnaissance Office using Boeing's Delta IV rocket, the Pentagon said on its Web site. Currently, $253.7 million has been obligated to the contract.
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