Article: Lockheed Martin Selected for Japan Government's Global Navigation Satellite System Program

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin Federal Systems has been selected, as a member of a team led by Nippon Electric Corporation (NEC), Tokyo, Japan, to help design and develop the Japanese government's new global navigation satellite system, the Multifunction Transport Satellite-Based Augmentation System (MSAS). The award has a potential value of approximately $36 million, or about 4 billion yen, to the NEC team.

As this future air navigation system expands throughout Asia and other regions, it is expected to improve flight safety for the flying public and result in huge savings for air carriers. Using identical U.S. Global ...

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