Rendering of part of Raytheon's Space Fence monitoring apparatus. Credit: Raytheon

WASHINGTON — Executives from the two companies competing to build the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Space Fence, a ground-based space-object tracking system, have said they believe the long-overdue contract award is coming soon, despite the uncertainty surrounding the program.

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