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ULA Never Let RD AMROSS Exclusivity Agreement Lapse, CEO Gass Says

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ULA Never Let RD AMROSS Exclusivity Agreement Lapse, CEO Gass Says
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., is covered under the Air Force's launch range support consolidation contract. Photo: ULA.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) never let its exclusivity agreement with RD-180 engine provider RD AMROSS expire, according to company CEO Michael Gass, refuting a key allegation in Orbital Sciences’ [ORB] lawsuit against ULA. “We have an ongoing lawsuit, so we’ll not comment,” Gass told Defense Daily this month. “But I would submit that we never let it lapse.” Orbital alleges ULA let an exclusivity agreement with RD AMROSS expire two-and-one-half years before renewing it in the late 2000s as a…

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