Even the controversial Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, or EELV, program, supplied by United Launch Alliance LLC, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co., which relies in part on Russian rocket engines to launch U.S. military and spy satellites, saw its cost estimates drop to $62.4 billion for 161 launches -- a decrease of 12 percent from a previous estimate due partly to renegotiated "contract values," the release states.