Northrop Grumman is also planning on entering NASA's New Frontiers program competition. If selected, it could be awarded up to $1 billion for design maturation, development, launch, and operations. However, it has been noted by experts that as proposed, VAMP cannot answer all key questions required by the NASA-chartered Venus Exploration Analysis Group's (VEXAG) 2014 science roadmap, and would be missing surface measurements and measurements of the surface's interaction with the atmosphere.
