{"id":94669,"date":"2019-08-12T09:24:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/blue-origin-files-protest-over-flawed-air-force-launch-procurement"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:24:56","slug":"blue-origin-files-protest-over-flawed-air-force-launch-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/blue-origin-files-protest-over-flawed-air-force-launch-procurement","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin files protest over \u2018flawed\u2019 Air Force launch procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blue-origin-files-protest-over-flawed-air-force-launch-procurement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Blue Origin filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Monday challenging the Air Force\u2019s plan to select two providers in the next procurement of launch services under the National Security Space Launch program.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin, a rocket manufacturer and suborbital spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, filed what is known as a \u201cpre-award\u201d protest with the GAO, arguing that the rules set by the Air Force do not allow for a fair and open competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Air Force is pursuing a flawed acquisition strategy for the National Security Space Launch program,\u201d states a Blue Origin fact sheet that outlines the reasons for the protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Blue Origin filed a protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office on Monday challenging the Air Force\u2019s plan to select two providers in the next procurement of launch services under the National Security Space Launch program. Blue Origin, a rocket manufacturer and suborbital spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, filed what is known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}