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McCain Encourages Pentagon to Investigate ULA Executive’s Remarks

Valerie Insinna

Thursday, March 17th, 2016

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McCain Encourages Pentagon to Investigate ULA Executive’s Remarks

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., is covered under the Air Force's launch range support consolidation contract. Photo: ULA.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) on March 17 called on Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to initiate an investigation into statements made by a United Launch Alliance executive who said the Defense Department had “bent over backwards” to give ULA more of an advantage in the GPS-3 satellite competition.The executive, ULA Engineering Vice President Brett Tobey, also alleged Tuesday at the University of Colorado-Boulder that McCain acted on behalf of ULA competitor SpaceX in his repeated attempts to…

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