Big Savings Promised From Sbirs Redesign, Propulsion-Payload Decoupling

Credit: Lockheed Martin Concept
The U.S. Air Force is touting more than $1 billion of cost avoidance through a redesign of the Space-Based Infrared System (Sbirs) early missile warning satellite built by Lockheed Martin. Program leaders in the company and the service negotiated a modification to the June 2014 contract award for...

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