Also in 2014, SpaceX capabilities and pricing began to affect the market for launch of U.S. military payloads. For nearly a decade the large U.S. launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) had faced no competition for military launches.[100] Without this competition, launch costs by the U.S. provider rose to over US$400 million.[101] The ULA monopoly ended when SpaceX began to compete for national security launches.