Lockheed Martin Loses BAMS Protest

This means that Northrop-Grumman can resume work on the Naval drone contract, based on the Global Hawk airframe.

If you go to the full article, you see that the number of protests is skyrocketing, almost doubling over the past 4 years, which is raising costs, and pushing back schedules, on the projects involved.

The problem is that a contract award protest is risk free at this point, so throwing the dice for another bite at the apple is a good move from a business perspective.