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[Satellite TODAY 01-05-10] Booz Allen Hamilton was awarded a four-year $38.4 million contract to provide launch and test range system engineering and integration support to the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, Booz Allen Hamilton announced Jan. 4.
    Booz Allen will lead a team, which includes Lockheed Martin and Arinc, in providing the required support to modernize the spacelift range enterprise by putting structures, processes and tools into place that will aim to increase the reliability, maintainability, availability, and dependability of the operating systems.
    The contract also aims to provide a risk reduction and capability maturation program to develop and maintain the current and future architectures of communications and weather assets for space missions, which are currently located at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

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