After publishing 13 posts during the past two years about the battle over the contract to produce new inflight refueling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, today I’m pleased to report good good news in the form of a statement from Wes Bush, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corporation [Editor's Note: Click [...]
Northrop Grumman Ends Bid for Tanker Contract
March 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment
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Tanker Contract Must Be National Security Priority
May 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Under the headline, U.S. Air Force’s tanker fleet showing its age, writer Molly McMillin of the The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle shared a story Sunday about the Air Force’s aging fleet of KC-135 air refueling tankers and the $35 billion contract battle between Boeing and Northrop Grumman that has immense national security implications. At the same [...]
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Air Force Tanker Competition Begins Anew
July 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments
It appears that public pressure — including eight BMW posts — did some good as the U.S. Defense Department has decided to reopen the KC-X aerial refueling tanker competition. The decision comes four months after the Pentagon’s original awarding of a $35 billion contract award to Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space [...]
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Boeing Continues Protest of Tanker Contract
May 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The KC-767 Advanced Tanker developed by Boeing was sized to meet the aerial refueling requirements of the U.S. Air Force’s mission and exceeded performance requirements to replace the aging, yet storied fleet of KC-135 medium tankers (see photo above), according to a Boeing news release today. Despite the fact that the stated parameters for evaluating [...]
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KC-767 ‘Less Risk for Warfighters, Taxpayers’
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
On Feb. 29, Pentagon officials announced they had chosen a bid from Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company, which is based in France, instead of one from Chicago-based Boeing for production of a new inflight refueling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. Seven weeks later, Boeing announced that it has filed [...]
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Boeing Protests Air Force Tanker Contract Award
March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments
One day after Northrop Grumman attempted to set the record straight regarding its victory in the battle over the coveted Air Force KC-45A tanker contract, The Boeing Company countered. In a news release this afternoon, the aerospace giant reported it had filed a formal protest with the Government Accountability Office and asked the agency to [...]
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Northrop Grumman Attempts to Set Record Straight
March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Northrop Grumman issued a news release this morning in an attempt to “set the record straight” concerning what the company calls “the U.S. Air Force KC-45A misinformation.” What the defense contractor conveniently overlooked in its effort to “spin” the news is the point I raised in a March 1 post, Medal of Honor Recipient Right [...]
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