The US DoD has announced that the US government has selected United Launch Alliance (ULA) – a launch provider jointly owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin – to fulfil two launches as part of its EELV block buy.
The NRO L-82 mission on behalf of the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) will fly on a Delta IV Heavy launched from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California on July 2020. The exact nature of the payload has not been disclosed but is likely to be an spy satellite to be used in a near-polar or Sun-synchronous orbit given the launch site used. According to Spaceflightnow.com, it will be an “Exquisite”-class electro-optical surveillance satellite.
The NRO L-101 mission, again for the NRO, will use at Atlas V 551 configuration rocket flying out of Cape Canaveral in August 2020 to launch it into orbit. No data is known about this spacecraft.