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Air Force Won’t Stop ULA Divestment Of Delta IV Heavy

Pat Host

Friday, March 17th, 2017

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Air Force Won’t Stop ULA Divestment Of Delta IV Heavy

A Delta IV rocket lifts GPS IIF-6 into space from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., May 16, 2014. Photo: ULA.

The Air Force won’t stop United Launch Alliance (ULA) from divesting its Delta IV Heavy rocket, despite a pair of key lawmakers ordering the service to do so.“That was a memo to us and not a law or language,” Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Military Deputy, Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch told reporters last Thursday after an Air Force Association breakfast in Arlington, Va. “Industry is making their decisions. I don’t have the ability…to tell them what they…

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