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…
