
The Government Accountability Office has rejected Raytheon [RTN] and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace’s protest of a sole-source award by the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the development of the airborne Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM). The GAO decision released Wednesday said DARPA adequately demonstrated that a competition and award to a company other than Lockheed Martin would have created cost duplication that would not be recovered in competition. The GAO also ruled that the…