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January 11, 2023January 11, 2023Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D

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Lockheed Martin Protest Of Army Rotorcraft Award Alleges Unequal Treatment, Rampant Subjectivity (From Forbes)

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D

Lockheed Martin, in consultation with team member Boeing, has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office alleging that the Army made multiple mistakes in awarding the development contract for its future assault aircraft to Bell Helicopter/Textron. Among other things, Lockheed, speaking for its Sikorsky unit, contends that the Army preferred from the start to select a tiltrotor design, and bent the rules to favor that outcome; applied selection criteria subjectively and unfairly; discriminated on the basis of selection criteria not stated in the solicitation; and did not apply the standards for a best-value selection correctly. I have written a commentary for Forbes summarizing the details of the protest here.

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