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Allow U.S.-based companies who manufacture and fly space vehicles (including their engines) to bid on DoD contracts.

Created by A.L. on May 20, 2014

Complete story here:

http://www.spacex.com/press/2014/04/29/eelv-right-compete

On April 28, 2014, SpaceX filed a bid protest in the United States Court of Federal Claims to challenge the U.S. Air Force’s latest Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) contract with United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The long-term contract, which guarantees the purchase of 36 rocket cores from ULA to be used in national security launches, was granted to ULA on a sole-source basis without any competition from other launch providers.

The majority of EELV launches are performed by ULA’s Atlas family of launch vehicle which uses the Russian RD-180 engine. The guy who runs all this is on our sanctions list!!!

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