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Lockheed Wins $250M Space Defense Support Contract; Cliff Spier Comments

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $250 million contract by the U.S. Air Force‘s life cycle management center for operations, sustainment and maintenance of missions under the integrated space command and control system.

According to a company statement, Lockheed will continue sustaining the air defense, missile warning and space defense systems that support the  North American Aerospace Defense, the U.S. Strategic Command and the U.S. Northern Command missions.

The air defense and missile warning missions are part of the integrated tactical warning attack assessment mission, which provides warning to the President if North America is under attack.

“We’ll work with AFLCMC to ensure that ISC2 continues to provide commanders with synchronized C2 operations that improve strategic and tactical coordination among our forces, ” said Cliff Spier, vice president of command & control solutions for Lockheed Martin information systems & global solutions-defense.

Lockheed Martin already modernized the Air Force’s missile warning, air defense and space command and control information technology infrastructure and integrated and replaced more than 30 legacy stove-piped systems under the ISC2 contract.

The contract has three option years.

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