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No Protests Of NASA CRS-2 Contract Awards

Pat Host

Tuesday, January 26th, 2016

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No Protests Of NASA CRS-2 Contract Awards

Artist's illustration of Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser connected to ISS. Photo: Sierra Nevada.

Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] declined to protest after missing out on NASA's Cargo Resupply Services-2 (CRS-2) contract awards, company spokeswomen said Tuesday.Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC), Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Orbital ATK [OA] were awarded contracts for NASA's follow-up effort to deliver food and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX and Orbital ATK are incumbents from CRS-1. SNC bid for CRS-1, but was not awarded a contract. NASA said it selected proposals based on best value…

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