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The Pentagon’s Top Rocket Launcher Is Behind Profit Goals and Losing Staff


For over a decade, United Launch Alliance had an absolute monopoly. If the Pentagon wanted to send a spy satellite to space, the Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. venture was its only choice.

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