Lockheed, tiny firm compete for blimp deal
Published: Wed Jan 18th, 2006Source: www.upi.com
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- The race for a U.S. contract to build a blimp for troop transport has come down to Lockheed Martin and a group of Russian emigres at a California firm. Both tiny Worldwide Aeros, which has 40 workers and makes blimps used for flying billboards, and Lockheed have won $3 million in contracts from the Pentagon to do preliminary design work, the Los Angeles Times said Tuesday.
In September the Pentagon will award one of them a $100 million contract to build a 900-foot airship prototype.
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