/ Source: Reuters
The U.S. government has decided to shift a $15 billion Boeing Co. contract to develop secret imaging satellites to Lockheed Martin Corp , a source familiar with the matter said Thursday.
U.S. Director of Intelligence John Negroponte had made the decision and his staff was informing lawmakers, said the source, who asked not to be identified.
Rick Oborn, spokesman for the National Reconnaissance Office which awarded the classified Future Imagery Architecture (FIA) contract in 1999, said only that Boeing's contract was being changed. "We are restructuring Boeing's FIA contract and the details of that are classified," he said.
