American Machinist:
Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, Calif., was awarded a U.S. Air Force contract worth over $2.9 billion to design and develop three Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Space Vehicles — a replacement system for the current Space Based Infrared System. The OPIR satellites will be a missile warning “constellation” that the Air Force intends will be more impervious to weapons systems in development now by China and Russia…
