On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:38:35 GMT, "Jacques van Oene" wrote:
SPACE SYSTEMS/LORAL AWARDED $103 MILLION CONTRACT TO BUILD CRITICAL POWER
SYSTEMS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

SS/L to Build 40 New Batteries Under a Sub-Contract From Boeing NASA Systems

Lets see now, Boeing gets the battery contract for $145 million on the 7th, then
immediately subcontracts it out to Loral on the 8th for $103 million, pocketing a
tidy $42 million profit for one day's work shuffling paper. Now I wonder who Loral
is going to sub it out to, and how much the actual battery manufacturer (probably
some Taiwanese garage shop) is going to make off of this.

Gary