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JLTV Not Light. Worries surface that existing amphibious ships may have trouble accepting the taller, more heavily armored JLTV and that holds where Humvees were traditionally stored aboard ship may be inadequate for the larger vehicle. Assistant Marine Corps Commandant Gen. John Paxton says that likely will not be a problem, especially as new L-class amphibious ships come online. The JLTV “is indeed heavier than the Humvee because we had to capital-ize on what we knew was going to be an asymmetric-type fight and the lessons learned from the last 14 years about what kind of protection we needed for underbody and side armor,” Paxton says at a recent Navy League breakfast outside Washington, D.C. “It is bigger than the Humvee but much smaller than the MRAP. We think that by size…we fit it out so that it doesn’t create the problem we don’t want to have on our L-Class ships. As we move to the L-XR and the increase in cube- and square- [feet] on the ships, we think we are going to be in good shape.”

… F35B Operations. Paxton reiterates the view of other Marine Corps brass that the F-35B will not see combat any time soon, even though the service was the first to declare the jet “operational” in July. Paxton says the Marine Corps is reluctant to repeat mistakes made when the MV-22 Osprey was rushed into action after it entered service, only for Marines to learn, under fire, its intricacies, shortcomings and capabilities. “The risk of having a new capability, an unproven capability, is to accelerate it and to do more with it faster,” Paxton says. “Particularly when you are in a fight. … One of the things we are at risk of doing is overloading ourselves and trying to take a good capability, a new capability, but perhaps an untested, unproven capability and put it in the fight too fast. … We’re going to be a little loath to go too fast on the F-35B. We’re going to want it to get to FOC (full operational capability). I’m sure the test-ing and the acquisition folks and the Hill are going to want to do the same thing.”

Elevating Cyber Command. Nothing has been finalized as far at “elevating” United States Cyber Command from its current status as a sub-unified command that is under U.S. Strategic Command, says a Pentagon official. There are “potential operational efficiencies and effectiveness that could be had from elevating Cyber Command” and Defense Secretary Carter continues to considering recommendations, Aaron Hughes, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Cyber Policy, says at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. Former Cyber Command Chief Gen. Keith Alexander suggested in 2014 shortly before departing that CYBERCOM should become a unified command to get out from under STRATCOM.

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…Nimble Acquisition. The Pentagon needs to be more “nimble” than it is when it comes to acquiring cyber capabili-ties, Hughes says. Similar to how Special Operations Command has its own acquisition authorities, Cyber Command could acquire capabilities more rapidly from the commercial sector if it had similar authorities, he says. “I don’t think we can go from zero to 100 immediately but I think some sort of pilot or trial that provides Cyber Command with exquisite acquisition authorities might be relevant and we could potentially see that in the coming years,” Hughes says.

Necessary Change. The Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate needs to go through a proposed reorganization that will enhance its operational capabilities and allow it to better deal with evolving and changing cyber threats, says Phyllis Schneck, deputy under secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications at DHS. “This transformation will strengthen our cyber mission, it will strengthen our ability to reach out to our customers and to serve them well,” she says. “Fighting back against this constantly evolving threat requires this fully collaborative approach. NPPD can’t do our mission if we don’t do this.”

Syria. The Obama administration’s $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels in Iraq to fight Islamic State militants in Syria goes from pause to full stop, the Defense Department says. The program stopped taking new recruits weeks ago after a cohort of U.S. trained rebels reentered Syria and were quickly pummeled by other rebel groups and Islamic State fighters. Some reports indicate the U.S. trainees simply handed over their weapons to other rebel groups allied with Al Qaeda. “From the program's inception, we have reviewed our progress, acknowledged challenges, and worked to determine how we can improve our efforts in support of our partners on the ground,” the Pentagon says in a five-paragraph statement that does not explicitly say the program has ended.

… A New Plan. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter calls instead for plans to equip “a select group of vetted leaders and their units" with weapons and other gear "so that over time they can make a concerted push into territory still controlled by ISIL.” We will monitor the progress these groups make and provide them with air support as they take the fight to ISIL. This focus on equipping and enabling will allow us to reinforce the progress already made in coun-tering ISIL in Syria. "I remain convinced that a lasting defeat of ISIL in Syria will depend in part on the success of local, motivated, and capable ground forces," Carter says. "I believe the changes we are instituting today will, over time, increase the combat power of counter-ISIL forces in Syria and ultimately help our campaign achieve a lasting defeat of ISIL."

ISIS In Afghanistan? Army Gen. John Campbell, testifying on Capitol Hill this week, warns lawmakers that pull-ing U.S. and coalition forces out of Afghanistan completely would create a power vacuum like the one that allowed Islamic State militants to establish a foothold in Iraq. Where total coalition forces in Afghanistan numbered 140,000 just a few years ago, there now are just 14,000 troops including the 9,800 U.S. personnel that remain in Afghanistan. "If we withdraw from Afghanistan, the security vacuum will arise and other extremist networks such as [ISIL] could rapidly expand and sow unrest throughout Central and South Asia and potentially target our homeland," Campbell says. "The Afghans must continue to do their part, and if they do, we should continue to exercise strategic patience and sustain our commitment to them.”

Mergers and Acquisitions. The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer, Frank Kendall, reiterates his concerns about recent mergers and acquisitions that have led to a shrinking defense industrial base. "I think that the tools that we have to manage that trend are inadequate based on my recent experience,” he says. "I've got my team thinking about policy

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alternatives that we can put in place. I think we have to work with the Hill on this.” However, he firmly states that he is not being critical of Lockheed Martin’s recent purchase of Sikorsky. “I think Lockheed made what is probably for them a good strategic move.”

Robot Buy. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division awards iRobot two indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts with a combined value of $7.9 million for initial orders. The first contract purchases support services, upgrades and spares for the Man Transportable Robotic System Mk 1 robots—which are used in bomb disposal missions—and the second contract allows for production of new MTRS Mk 1 robots and parts. The combined total ceiling of the contracts is $96 million.

SEWIP Contract. The Navy awards Northrop Grumman a $91 million contract modification for Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 program engineering and manufacturing development. SEWIP upgrades existing AN/SLQ-32(V) electronic warfare systems with new electronic support receivers and an improved interface, the contract announcement states. During Block 3, selected Navy ships will receive a new EW suite with better electronic attack capabilities.Japanese F-35 Fuselage. Northrop Grumman completes the first center fuselage for the first F-35 to be assembled in Japan's F-35 Final Assembly and Checkout (FACO) facility, according to a a company statement. Northrop Grumman notes the center fuselage, designaged AX-5, is completed on time and on schedule. It will be integrated into a F-35A conventional variant aircraft. The AX-5 center fuselage is one of 42 that Northrop Grumman will produce for Japan. Lockheed Martin develops the F-35 along with subcontractors Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems.

Alcoa F-35 Deal. Alcoa signs a contract to supply titanium for Lockheed Martin's F-35 program, according to an Alcoa statement. Alcoa becomes the titanium supplier for airframe structures for all three F-35 variants over nine years, from 2016 to 2024. At currently projected rates, the deal is estimated to be worth nearly $1.1 billion. Under a different contract, Alcoa will use the metal to forge all of the largest titanium bulkheads, the "backbone" of the aircraft structure, for the F-35A conventional variants at its Cleveland facility.

Upgraded PAC-3. The Army accepts the first PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors built by Lockheed Martin, according to a company statement. The PAC-3 MSE missile is a high-velocity interceptor that defends against tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and aircraft. It brings a larger, dual-pulse solid-rocket motor, larger control fins and upgraded support systems. Lockheed Martin receives the first PAC-3 MSE production con-tract in April 2014 and earns a follow-on order in July.

GSSAP IOC. The Air Force declares initial operational capability (IOC) for its first two Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) spacecraft on Sept. 29. IOC declaration concludes successful testing of the system and brings online a SSA capability that improves U.S. ability to rapidly detect, warn, characterize and attri-bute disturbances to space systems in the geosynchronous (GEO) environment. The system reduces the likelihood of space collision, increases safety in this domain and will support. U.S. Strategic Command's (USSTRATCOM) Unified Command Plan-assigned mission to plan and conduct SSA.

Dream Chaser Updates... Sierra Nevada Corp. significantly updates two Dream Chaser spacecraft currently in devel-opment: the atmospheric engineering test article (ETA) and the advanced composite orbital vehicle, according to a company statement. The ETA will undergo a suborbital flight regimen while the advanced composite orbital vehicle will undergo an orbital flight regimen. SNC makes significant structural and systems improvements to the ETA, while also heavily investing in maturing the spacecraft orbital avionics, guidance navigation and control, and the flight software. An advanced orbital Thermal Protection System (TPS) is installed on the ETA skid to do advanced testing of the actual orbital TPS.

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...More Dream Chaser. Lockheed Martin completes the Dream Chaser orbital cabin assembly, marking a significant milestone in the vehicle's construction. This assembly is the largest high-temperature unitized structure ever fabri-cated at U.S. Air Force Plant 4. The assembly utilizes three-dimensional woven joints to integrate internal frames with external carbon skins in a single co-bond operation. This means nearly all fasteners on this critical cabin assembly are eliminated.

NROL-55 Launch. The Air Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launch the NROL-55 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Oct. 8. Launch takes place from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., at 8:49 a.m. EDT on an Atlas V rocket. The rocket also delivers 13 Government Rideshare Advanced Concepts Experiment (GRACE) CubeSats to orbit. ULA is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing.

IRS Cyber Funding. In a letter responding to inquiries by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), ranking member of the Finance Committee, the IRS Commissioner writes that budget cuts since FY 2010 have prevented the agency from adequately countering cybersecurity risks. “The combined pressures of reduced resources, new demands, and cyber threats have undermined our ability to deliver foundational taxpayer services and enforcement programs that are the twin pillars of our system of voluntary compliance,” Commissioner John Koskinen says.He notes the IRS budget is down $1.2 billion since FY 2010 while the population has grown and the agency takes on “significant new unfunded responsi-bilities.”

Army JTRS Radio Program Highlights Advantages Of Open Architecture Systems

By Dan Parsons

As military weaponry and communication systems become ever more defined by software rather than hardware, the trend toward open architecture systems that allow for swift and regular technical refresh will become the norm, according to industry officials.

Computing systems like the Navy’s consolidated afloat network enterprise sys-tem (CANES) and the Army’s Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) are perfect examples of this trend. Software-defined systems like radios or unmanned aircraft, where capability improvements can be made without replacing hardware, will increasingly be required to be designed with open, modular architectures, said Todd Borkey, chief technology officer at Thales Defense and Security.

“Strategic systems where strategic weap-ons get deployed, that’s hard to require open architecture. But tactical coms, ISR platforms, things that are a commodity and have a lot of tech refresh associated with them, anything with a lot of technical content payload regen-eration, are candidates for open systems,” he said during a recent visit to the company’s manufacturing facility outside Gaithersburg, Md. “If there is a technology that refreshes and new acquisition pro-grams are being run for it, you will see more and more open architecture.”

Some companies have concerns that providing modular open systems is tantamount to surrendering intellectual property to the government and placing self-imposed limits of the profitability of a contract. Thales, for one, has recognized that as the Defense Department moves toward requiring open architecture from the earliest stages of an

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acquisition program, it behooves industry to play along.On the EW front, Thales has won several recent contracts for classified systems “entirely because we proactively

sought out and provided an open architecture approach. Borkey said.“So much so that we can give the government software development kits that have complete control over our

system so that they can develop their apps in their labs and run our systems with it.”Another prime example is the Army’s JTRS radio program, for which Thales and Harris Corp. [HRS] are under

contract to produce about 150,000 rifleman radios. The program, which also includes vehicle-mounted radios, is designed to tap commercial technologies for military use and will be re-competed every five years to in an effort to find the most capability and the best price for the government.

All of the JTRS radios since 2004 have had a basic requirement to be compliant with the Army’s software com-munications architecture (SCA).

“That has been very rigid over time,” said Dennis Moran, vice president of government business for RF Communications at Harris. “There are processes in place where you have to qualify and you have to demonstrate your SCA compliance. And what that allows for is…the porting of waveforms on multiple platforms and it also goes a long way in make sure interoperability is achieved.”

Competitors for Army radio contracts also must meet standards of compliance and security set by the National Security Agency. That standard is designed to set a baseline for communications security and to ensure interoper-ability between different radio platforms and government agencies. Once the software that operates on the Rifleman Radio, for instance, is deemed compliant, the manufacturer is free to improve the radio’s hardware at will, Moran said.

“As long as you are compliant with that architecture, you are given the freedom to do your own design so that you optimize the performance of the waveform, never giving up interoperability… which could make a huge differ-ence in battery life and the distance that that waveform travels in free space. So, it’s the best of both worlds.”

“The government gets its open-architecture compliant product, but at the same time it is taking advantage of the innovation that industry is doing,” he added. n

Air Force Awards Five Firms Competition For Cyber Orders With $5 Billion Maximum Combined Order

By Richard Abott

The U.S. Air Force awarded five firms a partial small business set-aside competition for cybersecurity and infor-mation systems technical area tasks with the firms set to compete for orders of $3.5 million and below each with a combined total of $5 billion, the Air Force said Thursday.

The five companies awarded the competition are Barbaricum, LLC; Baum, Romstedt Technology Research Corp.; Data Systems Analysts Inc.;Professional Project Services Inc. (Pro2Serve); SMS Data Products Group Inc.; and Solers Inc.

The Air Force said the companies will share the maximum $5 billion cost-plus-fixed-free, firm-fixed price, multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract with a not yet awarded multi-award open and full competition pool.

The contract delivers research, development, test, and evaluation efforts for technical tasks within focus areas including software analysis, information assurance, knowledge management and information sharing, and modeling and simulation.

Contract performance will be named on the individual task orders, the Air Force said. No funds were obligated on the basic contract, but a task order to fulfill management reporting requirements will be issued to each contractor to satisfy the minimum order guarantee.

The multiple contract award was competitively procured by a partial small business set-aside acquisition with 14 offers received through the Federal Business Opportunities website.

Contract work is expected to be completed by Nov. 30, 2020. The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency at Offutt AFB, Neb., is the contracting activity. n

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Booz Allen CDM Task Order Covers Six AgenciesBy Richard Abott

After being awarded nearly $83 million for Task Order 2D of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’ Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] said Wednesday this covers six federal agencies.

Under CDM Task Order 2D, the company covers the Department of Health and Human Services, Treasury Department, General Services Administration (GSA), NASA, Social Security Administration, and the U.S. Postal Services.

The CDM program is meant to fix problems within the network perimeters of federal agencies in near-real-time. Compared to DHS’ EINSTEIN program guarding the perimeter of an agency network like a gateway and perimeter scanners, the CDM program monitors within a network for vulnerabilities and suspicious behavior once a bad actor may have breached the perimeter.

The Booz Allen Hamilton award was originally announced by DHS last month (Defense Daily, Sept. 22) along with Task Orders 2C and 2E, with Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Hewlett Packard [HP], respectively.

This set of task order awards complete phase 1 awards of the CDM program, making the program available to 97 percent of the federal civilian government.

"The award of this second CDM Task Order is a testament to the vision and expertise of Booz Allen’s Cyber team. Our deep technical knowledge and history in the cyber security world position us well to meet the requirements that DHS and FEDSIM have laid out for implementing CDM," Thad Allen, an executive vice president at Booz Allen, said in a statement.

"Our approach with this work, as with our other CDM work, is to use a common set of processes and tools, and deploy and calibrate them to meet each Agencies’ unique mission and needs," Rob Allegar, principal at Booz Allen and the solutions architect for the task order, said.

"The biggest focus is getting the right systems in place that give these Agencies visibility into the vulnerabilities

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and threat-actor activity occurring in their environments. With this data at their fingertips, they can take action to protect against current threats. It also lays the foundation to enable agencies to eventually use collective intelligence to help predict where future threats may originate,” Allegar added.

Combining both Task Order 2D and an earlier order, 2B, the company is contracted to help 13 agencies imple-ment CDM systems and capabilities. These combined orders have a total contract value of up to $120 million over the next three years. n

Cyber Command Wants Round-The-Clock Virtual Training EnvironmentBy Calvin Biesecker

The Defense Department is aiming toward developing the capacity for around-the-clock virtual training for its Cyber Mission Forces and is working to put funding into the FY ’17 budget request for this purpose, the deputy chief of United States Cyber Command said on Friday.

Ranges for training the cyber forces exist but “what we’re resourcing now is the ability to do that 7-by-24,” Air Force Lt. Gen. James “Kevin” McLaughlin, deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, said in a speech at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. The current training capabilities don’t allow for “as many teams and as often as we need,” he said.

And Cyber Command wants this training to be able to happen anytime, anywhere.

“We want people to be able to log into this environment anyplace where they live in the world and do realistic training,” McLaughlin said. “As you can imag-ine, the need to have the sophisticated technical skills along with what’s growing as the operational art about how this works have to be tested and trained, and our people have to prove and demonstrate that they can do their job in a realistic scenario.”

There is “strong agreement” for this capability but the question is how much funding will be available for this training capacity, McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin said “deep” discussions are underway to fund the Persistent Training Environment beginning in FY ’17, although it’s “still too early to deter-mine how much funding we’ll get.” He added that if the request is agreed to and ultimately funded, “we’re still a few years away” from the around-the-clock

capability.The range environments are being created for cyber teams with defensive and offensive missions to test in real-

istic scenarios.Later in the morning as part of a CSIS panel on the role of the U.S. military in cyberspace, Maj. Gen. Paul

Nakasone, commander of the Cyber National Mission Force for Cyber Command, said a training environment has to be able to replicate networks that are being defended or attacked, have a “thinking opposing force that can offer your team challenges,” realistic scenarios, and most importantly an assessor to say ‘this is what you did well, this is where you fell short, and this is the standard that you have to achieve.’”

Realistic training environments are “the most impactful way that we’ve learned” to create effects generation for offensive and defensive teams, Nakasone said.

The Persistent Training Environment will allow that training to be repeated over and over, McLaughlin said.Beginning with the FY ’13 budget, the Defense Department began setting up 133 separate cyber teams across

three mission sets. Just more than half the teams have been stood up and the schedule for initial operating capabil-ity by the end of 2016 remains on track, McLaughlin said. By the end of 2018 is when DoD expects to achieve full operating capability with the teams. n

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No Air Force Participation In Fiscal 2017 F-35 'Block Buy,' Officer SaysBy Pat Host

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Though the Air Force is interested in a eventual multi-year "block buy" of F-

35A conventional variant aircraft, it won't be able to participate in one by fiscal year 2018 due to budget

"misalignment," according to a key officer.

F-35 Integration Office Director Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian on Monday cited two reasons for this

misalignment: one is the Air Force has just about solidified its budget for FY '17 and would have to "crack" it

open to find the money necessary to participate in a FY '18 F-35 block buy.

The second reason, Harrigian said, is the continuing resolution (CR) currently hanging over the heads of

Congress and the federal government. He called this a "perfect example" of the budget misalignment preventing

a F-35 block buy in FY '18. The fiscal year ends Sept. 30 and lawmakers don't seem anxious to pass

authorization and appropriatons bills for FY '16. One consistent theme here at the Air Force Association's (AFA)

Air and Space conference has been service leaders hammering a potential CR as damaging to the Air Force.

"Naturally, we're interested in (the block buy)," Harrigian said. "There's certainly some benefit that would be

realized should we be able to execute that. Our challenge clearly though is the fiscal constraints that we're under

right now."

Under Secretary of Defense For Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) Frank Kendall said in May the

Pentagon planned on seeking congressional approval for a three-year block buy of F-35s that could help drive

down prices of the aircraft. The buy would span FY's '18-'20 and include up to 150 jets per year. Both

international partners and foreign military sale (FMS) customers would be eligible.

By consolidating three years of orders into one contract, F-35 prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT] and

its suppliers could achieve economies of scale and produce aircraft more efficiently, which, in turn, cuts the cost

of the plane for customers. Kendall predicted "double-digit savings" were likely if a deal could be reached

(Defense Daily, May 29).

F-35 Program Grappling With Parts Management In Latest ALIS Software VersionBy Pat Host

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. --The F-35 program is grappling with a parts management issue in its currently

fielded version of the aircraft's Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS) software, according to key

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Yearlong CR Would Force Air Force to Break KC-46A Contract with Boeing

By Valerie Insinna

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. —The Air Force has set Sept. 25 as the new first flight date for its KC-

46A refueling tanker, but a long-term continuing resolution (CR) could spell more trouble for the

program, its program executive officer said on Tuesday.Under the current schedule, the KC-46A program will hit a Milestone C decision in April 2016,

after which it is scheduled to award contracts to Boeing [BA] for the first two lots of low-rate initial

production aircraft, said Air Force Brig. Gen. Duke Richardson, program executive officer for

tankers."LRIP Lot 2 is fiscal year 2016 funding, so if we get into a CR situation, it will create a very large

problem for this program” in that it will not be able to award a contract as planned for 12 aircraft, he

said during a speech at the Air Force Association’s Air and Space Conference.

Under the terms of its contract, the Air Force could buy anywhere from eight to 11 aircraft during

LRIP Lot 2 and pay a penalty to Boeing. However, buying fewer than eight aircraft would result in

the contract being broken, and a yearlong CR would only allow for the purchase of seven aircraft, he

told reporters after the briefing.“This contract that we have is a very nice contract in a lot of ways, but it's also fairly stringent in

terms of what it requires of the government,” he said. “It requires funding stability and requirements

stability. Up to this point we have delivered both.”Throughout his speech, Richardson stated that the service is struggling keeping the program on

schedule, not with the performance of the aircraft.Under the current contract, Boeing is required to deliver the first 18 tankers by August 2017.

Richardson said he was “cautiously confident” that the company would meet the “required assets

available” deadline, but noted that technical issues have eaten away all of the slack built into the

schedule.The service is preparing the first fully equipped KC-46A aircraft, called EMD2, for its inaugural

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 Page 1 58th Year, Volume 267, No. 55Boeing Declines Divesting United Launch AllianceNATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--Boeing [BA] is not currently interested in divesting United Launch Alliance (ULA)--to Aerojet Rocketdyne [AJRD] or anyone else."Divesting ULA is not in our thinking at this time," Boeing spokesman Todd Blecher said Tuesday in an email. "We are committeed to remaining a leader in the space industry and ULA is a big part of that."

Blecher said Boeing has informed Aerojet Rocketdyne of its position on the rumored offer. Reuters reported Sept. 8 that Aerojet Rocketdyne submitted a $2 billion offer to acquire ULA from parent companies Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Boeing. Lockheed Martin spokesman Dan Nelson on Wednesday declined to comment on the reported offer.Aerojet Rocketdyne Vice President of Advance Space and Launch Julie Van Kleeck on Tuesday declined here at the Air Force Association's (AFA) Air and Space conference to confirm or deny the

report during a briefing with reporters. Aerojet Rocketdyne did not respond to a request for comment by press time Wednesday. ULA earlier this year rebuffed an Aerojet Rocketdyne overture to acquire the data rights to the Atlas V rocket, which ULA will eventually retire in favor of its next-generation Vulcan launch vehicle, of which it is teaming with Blue Origin.One space expert believed the strategy behind the rumored offer for ULA was to make it use Aerojet

Rocketdyne's AR-1 engine, of which the company is shopping for a customer. Shortly after the rumored offer made news, Blue Origin announced it signed an agreement with ULA to expand their

production capabilities for Blue Origin's BE-4 engine that will power the Vulcan next-generation launch vehicle.Nevertheless, Aerojet Rocketdyne is continuing its pursuit of additional work with ULA. Van Kleeck said Tuesday the company's AR-1 could go on the Vulcan. Aerojet Rocketdyne last year signed an agreement with ULA to provide a competitive cost estimate, schedule and risk management plan for the AR-1 engine as well as the RS-68, RL-10 and solid rocket motors (Defense Daily, Sept. 30).

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