While Boeing Protests Northrop Won't on New Weather Satellite
As we wrote a few days ago Boeing protested the award of the new weather satellite by Boeing to Lockheed. Reuters says that the other losing bidder, Northrop, will not follow Boeing and protest. Boeing believed based on what they were told by NASA that their proposal was superior. Boeing had built the earlier generation of satellites and had based their proposal on those. Proposals have increased as the number of companies and work have declined. This really started in the Nineties with the overall contraction of the defense industry as the Cold War spending wound down. This meant that every contract became more important to win to keep a constant workload at the various contractors.
Matthew Potter works supporting US Army aviation programs. He holds degrees in history as well as studying at the Defense Acquisition University. He has written for Seeking Alpha and at his own website, Defense Procurement News.
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