The Air Force will have to pay three contractors that were cheated out of a fair competition in 2001 for the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program when former Air Force acquisition official Darleen Druyun gave the contract to Boeing, per a new Government Accountability Office ruling. Rebecca Christie of Dow Jones Newswires reports that the GAO rejected USAF’s claim that the three companies—Lockheed Martin, L3 Communications, and BAE Systems—already had received adequate compensation. GAO originally ruled in favor of the three contractors in 2005.
The Space Development Agency says it’s on track to issue its next batch of missile warning and tracking satellite contracts this month after those awards were delayed by the Pentagon’s decision to divert funds from the agency to pay troops during this fall’s prolonged government shutdown.
