Lockheed protests Navy’s BAMS award

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Lockheed protests Navy’s BAMS award
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday May 6, 2008 7:07:15 EDT

Lockheed Martin has filed an official protest against the Navy’s decision to award Northrop Grumman the contract to build a long-range drone aircraft.

“Information provided to us during our debrief indicated that we offered a technically compliant and awardable solution at significantly lower cost, leading us to request a Government Accountability Office review,” Lockheed said in a statement released shortly after the protest was filed Monday morning.

The Navy announced April 22 that Northrop’s RQ-4N Global Hawk won a three-way competition to build the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft, a key element of the service’s move to upgrade its oceangoing patrol planes.

Lockheed was paired with General Atomics in offering the Predator UAV, a version of the Predator B UAV.

Also in the BAMS hunt was Boeing, which offered an unmanned version of the Gulfstream G550 business jet.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/05/defense_bams_protest_050508/



uhc comment: Interesting. The new contractor price for these UAVs is now $55,000,000. Previous article on the Northrop Grumman award --> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=259&topic_id=13803