Ula
Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced their intent to form the United Launch Alliance joint venture on May ULA merges the production of the government space launch services of the two companies into one central plant in Decatur, Alabama, and merged all engineering into another central plant in Littleton, Colorado. Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Delta IV and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Atlas V are both launchers developed for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program intended to provide the United States government with competitively priced, assured access to space.On , the engine in the Centaur upper stage of a ULA-launched Atlas V shut down early, leaving its payload – a pair of NRO ocean surveillance satellites – in a lower than intended orbit The anomaly caused delays to forthcoming Atlas V and Delta IV launches, due to the common RL-10 upper stage engines. The fault was traced to a new type of valve being used in place of an older component which had gone out of production. To resolve the problem, the older design was put back into production, and in the meantime, surplus valves from the original production run were used.The high costs space launches have received increasing attention and controversy with the arrival of SpaceX competition and price pressure. ULA's launch costs have been reported to be approximately million dollars each. In May of ULA president disclosed the average launch price was million dollars per launch with future launches as low as million dollars. This figure is in the price range of proposed SpaceX government launches. The recent core block buy from the Air Force was valued at 1 billion dollars and includes 36 rocket cores for up to launches. Simple division yields a contract price of million dollars per rocket core or $393 million dollars per launch. This excludes the $1 billion dollars of annual capability and readiness funding received by ULA.ULA is one of the few remaining U.S. based backpack companies who manufacture in house. Our factory in Logan Utah enables us to be extremely responsive to our customers ever changing needs. It allows us to adapt new technologies and materials in weeks rather than months, and also allows ULA to offer a level of customer service that is simply unmatched. Because we donʼt rely on others to sew our packs, we always have all styles and sizes in stock ready to ship.
Our packs have won awards from Backpacker magazine, The Great Outdoors, and Mens Journal. Our newly launched EPIC has received an award for innovation from Geographical magazine and was carried on the National Geographic sponsored circumnavigation of Alaska recently completed by Andrew Skurka
