Defence Giants in Spying Battle

World | June 11, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

According to the lawsuit, Boeing misappropriated secret Lockheed documents relating to its bid for a USD 2 B rocket programme in 1998. This information, Lockheed said, helped Boeing win 21 of the 28 tendered military satellite launches, part of the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) programme. A former Lockheed engineer, Kenneth Branch, who went to work for McDonnell Douglas, passed the information on when his firm was acquired by Boeing, the complaint alleges. Lockheed is seeking damages, the return of all proprietary information, and an injunction banning Boeing from profiting from illicitly-acquired knowledge in the future.

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