United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a U.S. launch service provider, formed in 2006 as a 50/50 joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The company designs, assembles, and launches rockets for government and commercial customers.
United Launch Alliance focuses on orbital launch vehicles. It inherited the Atlas V and Delta IV rockets at its founding and is now developing the next-generation Vulcan Centaur heavy rocket for U.S. national security and NASA missions. ULA has executed over 150 successful launches since 2006 (an unmatched reliability record) and provides assured access to space for military, intelligence, NASA and commercial payloads.