Re: DOD rescues Iridium

[David Honig]

At 10:10 PM 12/7/00 -0500, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
> From http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Dec2000/b12062000_bt729-00.html
>
>The Department of Defense, through its Defense Information Systems 
>Agency, last night awarded Iridium Satellite LLC of Arnold, Md., a 
>$72 million contract for 24 months of satellite communications 
>services. This contract would provide unlimited airtime for 20,000 
>government users over the Iridium satellite network.

The financial wizzes should have seen that coming.  There's no way 
the .mil can give up a zillion dollar satellite system for
ultra bargain prices --this is pocket change.  

"Avoiding fear of reentry" is so damn funny...