Lockheed Martin is the SBIRS prime contractor, with Northrop Grumman as the payload integrator.
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It is EXTREMELY difficult for a small business to be a DOE prime contractor.
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Astrium, Europe's biggest space company and prime contractor on the ATV, will be leading the feasibility work.
Prime contractor for the system is France's Alcatel Space, who will provide the satellites and ground facilities.
Prime contractor for the 6, 000-pound (2.7 ton) satellite was France's Alcatel Space, a joint venture between Alcatel and Thomson-CSF.
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Anything that fails, no matter who made it, is the prime contractor's fault.
Motorola will likely still supply radio sets in some of these venues but as a sub-contractor and not as the prime contractor.
Few of these changes are attributable to mis-steps by the prime contractor.
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The feasibility studies on this new rocket are being led by Astrium Space Transportation, which is also the prime contractor on the current vehicle.
That would be bad news for prime contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries, which owns the yard in Virginia where all U.S. Navy carriers are assembled.
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In other words, most of the increases in the acquisition cost of the F-35 have nothing to do with the performance of the prime contractor.
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McCaw told Motorola it wouldn't be the prime contractor on Teledesic.
Prime contractor for the AfriStar satellite was Alcatel Space with Marta Marconi Space, a joint venture of Britain's General Electric and France's Lagardere the major sub-contractor.
For prime contractor Lockheed Martin a company with which I have a long association the Japanese F-35 decision comes at a critical moment.
Avio is the prime contractor for Vega, the new European rocket system designed to launch the small satellites that are expected to be the main driver of the aerospace industry.
The issue is now being studied at the ATV control room in Toulouse, France, and at prime contractor EADS Astrium's Functional Simulation Facility at Les Mureaux north west of Paris.
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Prime contractor for the satellite was Germany's Daimler Benz.
Raytheon is the prime contractor for the PAC-2 Patriot system--much improved since its dismal accuracy in the Gulf war of 1991--and supplies an estimated 50% to 65% of the newer PAC-3 system.
Lockheed Martin certainly made its contribution to the increases, but the reflex of politicians and pundits to blame the prime contractor for rising costs misses most of what is going on in terms of the acquisition price-tag.
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For those that can remember, the contract, which named Boeing as a prime contractor to build a security fence on the US- Mexico border, was terminated in 2011, because it was considered to be too expensive and ineffective.
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Taking that assurance at face value, prime contractor General Dynamics launched a campaign to convince Congress and the Obama Administration that buying a smaller number of the vehicles while upgrading current amphibious systems would be more cost-effective than canceling the program and starting over.
"We welcome the announcement by the secretary of state for defence confirming that the SV (specialist vehicle) programme is secure in the MoD's future AFV (armoured fighting vehicle) pipeline and core programme of committed funding, " said Dr Sandy Wilson, president and managing director of General Dynamics UK, the prime contractor on the programme.
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Throw in the Price-Anderson Act, the huge liability of working with radiation, beryllium and asbestos, the extensive training requirements, safety issues, QA audit requirements, and the host of accountants, lawyers and HR people needed to be a prime to DOE, and you can imagine that few small businesses could even submit a proposal to be a prime contractor to the Department of Energy.
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