Mar 27 1998
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
NASA awarded a contract worth US$148 million to Raytheon STX Corporation. The five-year award included a one-year base period followed by four one-year options. Contract services for providing federal information processing services at NASA's ARC included software development and maintenance, engineering operations and maintenance, network services, analysis, quality assurance, and reviews.
France's Aerospatiale, British Aerospace, Germany's Daimler-Benz Aerospace, and Spain's CASA, partners in the Airbus Industrie airplane-manufacturing consortium, announced their intention to merge into a "unified civilian and military aerospace conglomerate that would compete in the world market with U.S. aerospace giants Lockheed Martin Corp[oration] and Boeing Co[mpany]" The partners provided no details regarding how the merger would take place, but the public statement represented "another move toward a unified European aerospace industry," an idea that had been elusive "because of the competing national interests of the various countries.
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