Space Policy Is Executive Branch's to Enforce, DARPA Says, Challenging Satellite Suit
That Orbital ATK is developing satellite servicing technology and yet claims the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program is superfluous is one of "the fundamental contradictions" on which Orbital ATK's lawsuit is based, DARPA said…
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in a memorandum (in Pacer) posted Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. The memorandum is in support of DARPA's April motion (see 1704120014) seeking dismissal of Orbital ATK's suit challenging DARPA's contract with Space Systems Loral as unfairly competing with commercial space activity (see 1702090045). DARPA also said the National Space Policy, to which Orbital ATK points in its complaint, is an executive management decree intended for setting directives among executive departments and agencies and doesn't carry the force of law, so enforcement of the policy falls on the executive branch alone. Orbital ATK counsel didn't comment Monday.