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Sierra Nevada Protests NASA’s Commercial Crew Award

Thursday, October 16th, 2014

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Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) on Sept. 26 protested NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) award to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and Boeing [BA] with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), sister publication Defense Daily had learned. GAO is scheduled to have a protest decision no later than Jan. 5, 100 days following protest filing. NASA on Sept. 16 awarded a pair of contracts for Commercial Crew worth a combined $6.8 billion for the two companies to taxi astronauts to and from…

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Unmanned Systems

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