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Lockheed Martin, Boeing win contracts to design U.S. military narrowband communications satellites (spacenews.com)
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[โ€“] Mr_Blott 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Boeing? Are they fucking sure about that lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a different division in a massive company, on a different contract model. I think it will be fine.

[โ€“] HootinNHollerin 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like the successful starliner?

[โ€“] WhatAmLemmy 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When you're in the too big to fail boys club, little things like gross incompetence, criminal negligence, fraud, mass murder, genocide, ecocide... All are water under the bridge.

These corporations essentially ARE the government at this point; so much so, that their financial success IS "national security".