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ULA Can Fulfill Air Force’s Block Buy Without Additional RD-180s, Boeing Exec Says

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ULA Can Fulfill Air Force’s Block Buy Without Additional RD-180s, Boeing Exec Says
Delta IV rocket from a GPS IIF launch in February. Photo: ULA.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) can fulfill the Air Force’s 35 core “block buy” with the rocket engines it currently has on hand, according to a Boeing [BA] space executive who sits on ULA’s board of directors. “We believe we can fully deliver on block buy with the engines we have on hand, new production of RS-68s on the Delta and adjustments in the manifest to move some of the payloads that are dual manifested from one launch vehicle to another,”…

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