FL Today: NASA awards $270 million for commercial crew efforts

From Florida Today:

NASA awards $270 million for commercial crew efforts: NASA today awarded nearly $270 million to four companies developing the U.S. vehicles that could fly astronauts after the shuttle.
Winners of funding in the second round of the Commercial Crew Development program, or CCDev, were as follows:
-- Blue Origin, Kent, Wash.: $22 million
-- Sierra Nevada Corporation, Louisville, Colo.: $80 million
-- Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), Hawthorne, Calif.: $75 million
-- The Boeing Company, Houston: $92.3 million
Boeing and SpaceX are developing capsules, while Sierra Nevada is building a space plane (pictured). Blue Origin, founded by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, was funded in the program's first round to advance a system that would push a spacecraft from a failing rocket.
'We're committed to safely transporting U.S. astronauts on American-made spacecraft and ending the outsourcing of this work to foreign governments,' NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement. 'These agreements are significant milestones in NASA's plans to take advantage of American ingenuity to get to low-Earth orbit, so we can concentrate our resources on deep space exploration.'

My note(s):
Looking forward to more details on the proposal from Blue Origin.
Update:  See this article from Parabolic Arc.