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Navy/USMC

GAO Rejects Raytheon, Kongsberg Protest On Long Range Anti-Ship Missile

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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

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GAO Rejects Raytheon, Kongsberg Protest On Long Range Anti-Ship Missile

A Lockheed Martin rendering of LRASM. (Image: Lockheed Martin).

The Government Accountability Office has rejected Raytheon [RTN] and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace’s protest of a sole-source award by the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the development of the airborne Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM). The GAO decision released Wednesday said DARPA adequately demonstrated that a competition and award to a company other than Lockheed Martin would have created cost duplication that would not be recovered in competition. The GAO also ruled that the…

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