
United Launch Alliance (ULA) won’t bid for the Air Force’s Global Positioning System III (GPS III) launch unless it gets permission to acquire additional Russian-developed RD-180s, the company’s CEO said Friday.“In order to bid on GPS, legally, I have to have an engine,” Tory Bruno told reporters during a teleconference celebrating ULA’s 100th mission. “I can get it legislatively or I can get it through the waiver process.”Bruno said on Twitter after the teleconference that the fiscal year 2015 National…