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USAF used criteria GAO rejected in new DRFP: KC-30 backers
Update, December 8: Bill Barksdale, Boeing KC-7A7 spokesman, emailed us with a response to this column. We have posted his note in the Comments section below. Original Post: The USAF used criteria in … more →
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USAF used criteria GAO rejected in new DRFP: KC-30 backers
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Update, December 8: Bill Barksdale, Boeing KC-7A7 spokesman, emailed us with a response to this colu … more →
USAF RFP supports smaller airplane: Boeing
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Bloomberg quotes the CEO of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems as saying the USAF Draft RFP for the K … more →
Northrop says no bid on tanker unless...
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Update, December 2, 3:00 pm: DOD Buzz reports that Rep. John Murtha, a powerful House member, says t … more →
KC-767 to benefit from 787 "surge" line
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wrote 1 month ago: Key points: The ability to increase production rates to sell more 767s in the coming years; Lower pr … more →
Analyst: Boeing more likely to offer KC-767
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wrote 1 month ago: While Boeing officially is offering the Air Force two tanker choices, Leeham Co. analyst Scott Hamil … more →
Prediction: Boeing offers KC-767
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wrote 1 month ago: Update: Defense News just published this article detailing the continuing problems Boeing has with t … more →
Updating the KC-X competition
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wrote 1 month ago: Update: The Mobile Press Register has this story saying that the USAF won’t include the WTO di … more →
Boeing gains STC on Italian KC-767
wrote 2 months ago: Let’s take a break from the Line 2 drama: Boeing issued this news internally about the KC-767 … more →
Boeing "leaning" toward KC-767
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wrote 2 months ago: Boeing is “leaning” toward offering the KC-767 to the US Air Force in the KC-X competiti … more →
Maybe we will get lucky?
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wrote 3 months ago: My tanker prediction for the USAF? Yes aircraft like what won the tanker competition, the KC-45, bef … more →
KC-X tanker DRFP released
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wrote 3 months ago: Update, September 28: DOD Buzz reports Boeing is going to offer two bids, one each for the KC-767 an … more →
Boeing kicks off tanker campaign
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wrote 3 months ago: Update, Sept. 17: While looking for something else we came across this old item from Forbes magazine … more →
KC-777 ready to go?
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wrote 6 months ago: Update, 6:00PM Paris Time: By now readers probably have seen the news from the Air Show on this topi … more →
Performance, delays will be factors in KC-X rebid
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wrote 6 months ago: The US Air Force is gearing up to issue a new request for proposals, perhaps as early as July, for R … more →
Week in Review: Boeing gets a do-over, Microsoft takes aim at Mac guy
wrote 7 months ago: First published July 11, 2008 You probably heard the big news from Boeing last week: Defense Secreta … more →
USAF regains tanker competition
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wrote 7 months ago: Update, May 28: Three KC-767Js are now operational with the Japanese Defense air force. The fourth a … more →
Boeing KC-767A delay and the compromised Italian air-to-air refueling capabilities
wrote 8 months ago: On Apr. 3, 2008, the last of 4 B.707TT of the Aeronautica Militare (Italian Air Force, ItAF) equippi … more →
Major shift on split tanker contract
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wrote 9 months ago: Update, April 3: The New York Times has this long piece on the prospect of a split procurement. Orig … more →
As the World Churns
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wrote 9 months ago: Only a few days ago, President Obama’s Office of the Management and Budget suggested delaying … more →
