Showing posts with label KC-X tanker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KC-X tanker. Show all posts
Thursday, February 24, 2011

KC-X: The Inevitable

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Well, this post is only for the purposes of closing the loop (finally/hopefully/perhaps?) on the long drawn-out saga of the KC-X contract, i...
Monday, May 17, 2010

AF Side of the KC-45 Story Disappears

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At Leeham News And Comment, someone was asking me about a reference showing the AF's position on the lamented late "KC-X Competitio...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Northrop Grumman Takes a Pass

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Northrop Grumman has declined to recompete for a contract they had already won - as I predicted in the comments here . (Not that it require...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Moral: There Are Good Reasons For Tankers to be MORE Than Tankers

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Our guys in the deep canyons of Afghanistan just got a whole lot 'better connected' to their lifelines. Note: Keep in mind when you...
Friday, September 19, 2008

KC-X Fiasco Update

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I've been wrestling with a pig (again) in the comments at DefenseTech.org over the merits and fallout of the farcical Boeing protest an...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Boeing on 'Offshoring': Good For Me But Not For Thee

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Steven Trimble's DEW Line wonders if Boeing's minions (he's a nice guy: he calls them 'supporters') will reign in their...
Friday, June 20, 2008

Air Force's KC-45 Legal Brief

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The GAO's role in the tanker protest is still suspect. With what I'm reading, the GAO doesn't look any better or seem any more c...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

So Does the GAO Also Dance To Boeing's Tune?

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.....Or to just the noisiest of those in Congress? CNN just reported that the GAO recommended reopening the KC-X competition. If this is tru...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Boeing's KC-45 Protest: Minions on the Move

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The IFPTE today released a so-called 'report' on the KC-45 contract award. It isn't flattering to either the AF or Northrop Gru...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

KC-45 Protest: More Balance - Real Numbers

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The constant regurgitation of Boeing talking points in comment threads at DefenseTech and elsewhere has prompted me to go ahead and provide...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Why 'Protest' Boeing? Why?

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DefenseTech offers an explanation (which reads oddly similar to my earlier analyses and conclusions) as to why Boeing is really protesting...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

KC-45 Tanker Protest: Why So Warlike?

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Scott Hamilton, of Leeham Co LLC, offers some interesting theories as to exactly why Boeing is using a "scorched earth" policy in...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

KC-45 Contract Protest: How Low Will Boeing Go?

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Geez. Boeing's mobilization of their unions to write Congress is pretty standard fare, but trying to use classified intel from the CIA ...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

KC-45 Contract Protest: The Other Side

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Well we're getting earfuls from Boeing--let's hear the other side for a change... The other day I got an e-mail from the America’s N...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

KC-45 Contract Protest: Sec AF 'Unmoved'

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Maybe Boeing Needs to Crank Out a Few More Revisions to the Protest? In an Air Force news release titled " Air Force secretary discusse...
Sunday, April 06, 2008

KC-45 Protest: NPR asked McGraw Hard Questions?!

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Color me surprised! (at NPR anyway) In a National Proletariat Radio interview last Thursday, Mark McGraw, the (talkative-talking) head (for...
Saturday, April 05, 2008

WIBW Lays Out Tiahrt 'Case' For Boeing

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Alternative Views Not Welcome I made a comment to a news story (Boeing Lays Out Case For Tanker) at a Kansas televison station website here ...

Boeing's KC-45 Protest:That Dog Won't Hunt Part III

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Boeing is trying to make a lot of hay in their ‘serial-protests’ about the AF 'improperly' crediting capability to the KC-45 that co...

Boeing's KC-45 Protest:That Dog Won't Hunt Part II

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Ah! Another ‘redacted’ summary is out? Mmmmmmmm . Must get one. "We continue to update and expand our protest," McGraw said duri...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

KC-45 Protest: Boeing Backing Off?

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Flash : The GAO just: "denied motions filed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) and the United States Air Force calling for a partial...