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ULA Bids For GPS III-3

Pat Host

Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

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ULA Bids For GPS III-3

ULA's Atlas V launches March 15, 2016, for an Orbital ATK CRS mission to ISS. Photo: ULA.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--United Launch Alliance (ULA) submitted a bid for the Air Force's Global Positioning System III-3 (GPS III-3) launch mission, potentially giving the service competition for launch it so desperately wants.ULA spokeswoman Lyn Chassagne said Wednesday though the company submitted a proposal, it remains concerned that price is "once again" the determining factor in this competition. Chassagne said ULA believes that a traditional "best value" procurement approach that gives more appropriate weight to critical technical factors like reliability, schedule assurance…

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