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Re: DOD rescues Iridium
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Sun Dec 10 04:55:46 2000
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Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 18:41:39 -0800
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>, cryptography@c2.net
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
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At 10:10 PM 12/7/00 -0500, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
> From http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2000/b12062000_bt729-00.html
>
>The Department of Defense, through its Defense Information Systems
>Agency, last night awarded Iridium Satellite LLC of Arnold, Md., a
>$72 million contract for 24 months of satellite communications
>services. This contract would provide unlimited airtime for 20,000
>government users over the Iridium satellite network.
The financial wizzes should have seen that coming. There's no way
the .mil can give up a zillion dollar satellite system for
ultra bargain prices --this is pocket change.
"Avoiding fear of reentry" is so damn funny...
