The Air Force on Aug. 3 released the request for proposals (RFP) for its Global Positioning System III-3 (GPS III-3) launch scheduled for February 2019.This launch competition is important because the Air Force did not have true competition for its last launch contract award. The last one, in April for GPS III-2, featured only one bidder: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX). United Launch Alliance (ULA) declined to bid for the contract, citing a variety of reasons, including not having an appropriate accounting system in place…
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