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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by adastra22 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:03PM (#40152903)
Because that's how the government operates. Same with the initial COTS and Commercial Crew awards to SpaceX: it was paired with a similar contracts to Orbital and Boeing, to make sure that if the untested startup failed there would be a traditional contractor ready to take up the slack.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by modeless on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:40PM (#40153151)
Hopefully this time the incumbent doesn't get paid twice as much for a worse outcome, as happened with Commercial Crew...

NASA paid Boeing 4.5 billion and counting, SpaceX 2.6 billion. SpaceX launched astronauts to ISS 7 times, completely fulfilling the original contract, and continues to launch on new contracts with NASA. Meanwhile Boeing has yet to fly a single astronaut and required NASA to pay them extra for their own delays and failures.

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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by adastra22 on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:46PM (#40153188)
Oh that's pretty much guaranteed.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by wmf on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:10AM (#40153680)
If those are the two lowest bids what else are you going to do?
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by adastra22 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:30AM (#40154554)
Tried this kind of contract they don’t award to the lowest bids. There are 3-4 other factors that take higher priority.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by shantara on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:20AM (#40156063)
From what I recall from NASA Artemis contracts selection process, all bids are weighted with two parameters in addition to the proposed cost: technical merits of the proposal and the confidence score based on the company's management and previous performance.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by renewiltord on Thursday April 25, 2024 @02:14AM (#40154046)
That's just one contract. SpaceX will win the rest. ULA is dead. They're being sold for parts.
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Re:Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unman... by adastra22 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @03:29AM (#40154547)
Boeing not ULA. But yeah Starliner isn’t flying any more missions than they are contractually obligated to fly.
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