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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Big U.S. missile-defense deal delayed again


The Pentagon has delayed until December the award of a contract that could unseat Boeing Co as the current prime contractor for the U.S. long-range missile shield.

A team led by Lockheed Martin Corp and Raytheon Co is vying with Boeing to expand and maintain the Ground-based Midcourse Defense, or GMD, hub of layered antimissile protection.

The award has slipped to December "because evaluation won't be completed until then," Richard Lehner, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, said in an emailed reply to Reuters.

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