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Archive for Monday, September 29, 2014




Sierra Nevada challenges NASA plans to replace the shuttle

Sierra Nevada is protesting NASA’s decision to replace the shuttle with capsules developed by Boeing and SpaceX. The company’s legal challenge is unusual. NASA has said little about why it chose Boeing and SpaceX to fly astronauts to the International Space Station and not Sierra Nevada. Now Sierra Nevada has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office. Dan Gordon is an expert in procurement law at George Washington University. He says most federal contracts go unchallenged. “It’s very rare that the GAO issues a decision saying that the contracting agency violated procurement law. That happens a few dozen times a year out of the 2,000 or so cases the GAO gets each year.” Sierra Nevada says its proposal meets ...
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