On Jan. 25, DoD announced that Lockheed Martin and Boeing have each won 15-month contracts worth $66 million to develop a new, more modern satellite design, with the service then deciding on which to use in building the two new MUOS birds.
"We've proven this works, we've proven the goodness," Scott Belanger, capabilities integration team lead for Boeing Global Services, told reporters. "Now, where do we take it? How do we really scale it?"