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...Irate lawmakers this week threatened to delay the contract because they believe the Air Force unfairly tilted the award to the European firm - a charge the Air Force rejects. Boeing has said it may launch a formal protest after it gets an Air Force briefing explaining the decision on Friday. The initial contract is for 179 planes over 15 years to refuel the Pentagon's fighters and bombers in mid-air. Ultimately, it could balloon to 500 planes worth about $100 billion...
...notion that military spending is all about national defense rather than hometown pork is being seriously tested by the firestorm triggered by last week's awarding of a $40 billion Air Force contract to a joint venture including the European parent of Airbus. The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Corporation and the U.S.-based Northrop Grumman beat out Boeing in the race to supply aerial tankers, making a foreign corporation responsible for a key piece of U.S. military hardware...
...Boeing's backers on Capitol Hill argue that the Air Force should have factored in damage to the U.S. industrial base - and the loss of American jobs - by letting the contract to the foreign firm. (The Airbus team claims its deal will support 25,000 U.S. jobs, but Boeing says it would have created more.) Underscoring the sensitivity of the topic on Capitol Hill, a top Air Force official addressing a House hearing on Wednesday referred to the winning bid using only the name of its American partner. "Northrop Grumman brought their A-game" to the competition, said Air Force...
...hard fact about the Air Force's choice is that it represents the downside of globalization. As economies of scale whittle away at the number of companies building a given product, inevitably a crafty customer is going to have to look worldwide for the best buy. It wasn't so long ago that Boeing could count on the McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Co. to keep it honest in dealings with the Pentagon. After all, that esteemed company built the KC-10 tanker for the Pentagon a generation ago, after beating out Boeing for that contract...
...triangular space dubbed "Military Island". No one was inside the steel and glass-paneled facility at the time of the blast, which cracked the front door and shattered a window. The building, which is positioned across the street from a police station and jointly houses Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine recruiters, has been the site of anti-war demonstrations. Late Thursday, Politico.com, citing congressional insiders, said that eight House Democrats were mailed a letter and photo of the Times Square recruiting station in Manhattan before it was bombed...