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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Military Photo of the Week from Kandahar
October 8th, 2009 · No Comments
J.T., a family friend who’s serving in the U.S. Air Force at Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, shot this photo of a British soldier silhouetted against the setting sun. It’s probably one of the most peaceful photos one might see from that part of the world.
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Air Force to Retire Nearly 250 Fighter Aircraft
May 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Following the May 7 roll-out of the fiscal year 2010 budget proposal for the Department of Defense, Air Force officials announced in a news release today plans to retire legacy fighters to fund a smaller and more capable force and redistribute people for higher priority missions. The Combat Air Forces restructuring plan would accelerate the [...]
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Obama Causes Writer to Worry About Israel
April 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment
In an American Thinker opinion piece today, Cliff Thier expresses grave concern about the future of Israel and worries that President Barack Obama will use U.S. Air Force assets to prevent Israeli forces from taking out Iran’s nuclear weapons capability. Among other things, he writes: Israel knows it must do take out the nuclear weapons [...]
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Air Force Thunderbirds Release 2008 Schedule
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments
When I served as an Air Force public affairs officer years ago, I had the privilege of working with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds on several crowd-pleasing occasions. Therefore, when I saw the team — formally known as the “U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron” — had released the schedule for its 56th season, I [...]
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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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