{"id":81915,"date":"2012-12-07T01:24:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/pentagon-ends-ulas-exclusivity\/"},"modified":"2012-12-07T01:24:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:24:31","slug":"pentagon-ends-ulas-exclusivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/pentagon-ends-ulas-exclusivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Ends ULA\u2019s Exclusivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Air Force, United Launch Alliance, Satellite Launch, Military Satellite<\/p>\n<p>Publication Date: 12\/05\/2012<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"181\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/av_nrol36_l5.jpeg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-3 with a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: ULA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Pentagon is opening up to other options besides <strong>United Launch Alliance<\/strong> for launchers for its military satellites. The partnership between <strong>Boeing<\/strong> and <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> that is ULA will still provide most of the equipment but now it will get some competition, effectively ending the monopoly it has been enjoying. <\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the <strong>U.S. Air Force <\/strong>has authorization to purchase 14 boosters from other suppliers such as <strong>Orbital&nbsp;<\/strong>and <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>. However, if the Pentagon is not satisfied with what the competition can provide, it retains the option to cancel those deals and go back to having ULA as the exclusive provider. <\/p>\n<p>The move is a new hit to the ongoing competition between ULA and other launch companies such as SpaceX. Earlier this year ULA turned to U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, for help. However, the company has stated it doesn\u2019t mind the competition but still believes it offers the best options for the Pentagon. <\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Air Force, United Launch Alliance, Satellite Launch, Military Satellite Publication Date: 12\/05\/2012 United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex-3 with a national security payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. Image credit: ULA The Pentagon is opening up to other options besides United Launch Alliance for launchers for its military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}