Air Force, ULA sign CRADA for Vulcan launch certification process

By Courtney Albon / September 28, 2016 at 12:09 PM
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with United Launch Alliance to certify the company's new Vulcan launch vehicle to fly national security space missions. The service, as part of its strategy to re-introduce competition into military space launch, requires all potential new launch vehicles to move through a new-entrant certification process. The signing of a CRADA detailing an individualized certification plan is one of the early steps in that...

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