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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Blogger Agrees with Union on Air Force Tanker
June 26th, 2008 · No Comments
It’s not often that this blogger agrees with labor union officials, but today I find myself in agreement with the International Association of Machinists on the matter of the Pentagon’s questionable awarding of a contract to to Northrop Grumman/EADS Airbus for delivery of the Air Force’s next-generation aerial refueling aircraft. Below is the text of [...]
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GAO Rules in Boeing’s Favor on Tanker Contract
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments
Boeing was informed today that the Government Accountability Office found in Boeing’s favor on a number of issues related to its protest of the U.S. Air Force’s award of a $35 billion contract to supply the service with its next-generation aerial refueling aircraft — or KC-X tankers — to begin replacing the current fleet of [...]
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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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Writer Highlights Serious National Security Gaffe
March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I couldn’t believe what I was reading in The Washington Times. In the first of a three-part series published this morning, Bill Gertz outlines how someone in the U.S. Government seems to have decided once again to risk national security by outsourcing contracts to overseas companies. In much the same way national security appears to [...]
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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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