$40 billion Air Force tanker deal AWARDED

[Canuck_Buck]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Air Force is expected to announce this week a $40 billion contract to replace its aging fleet of air refueling tankers, a process which has been mired in corruption and political wrangling for years.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/27/airforce.tankerdeal/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

Critics also complained Boeing was awarded the contract without competition and that the deal was a bailout for the 767 program, which was facing slumping sales.
Congress forced the Air Force to start a new bidding plan that would allow Boeing rival Airbus to compete for the contract.
Pentagon officials said the losing company could protest and ask the General Accountability Office to investigate the decision, which would delay the program again.

...Boeing should still get this, keep the money at home in north america.

[Canuck_Buck]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Air Force on Friday announced one of the largest military acquisition programs in U.S. history, saying the service had chosen Northrop Grumman over Boeing to replace its aging air refueling tanker fleet.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/29/air.force.tankers/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

[summit daWg]

Being that this will affect me personally I find it strange that the Air Force doesn't think our dollar, trade deficit, and economy will not suffer due to this.
Sending defense dollars overseas is really a bright idea isn't it?
What's next, the Navy having our warships built in China????
reminds me of my icon over there

[falcon]

Purely idiotic decision. This will just about kill Boeing. Look for the feds to propose some bailout for Boeing after they critically wounded the company.

[biscuit jake]

Someone refresh my memory please as to where Nothrup Grumman factories are these days. They pulling in french aircraft?

[Phil from Maine]

They are European, and they said, that they will build a new plant in Alabama if they would get the contract... Just like the rest of America we have to sell our own out...[:@]

[Aught Six]

Someone refresh my memory please as to where Nothrup Grumman factories are these days. They pulling in french aircraft?

My cousin is an electronics technician at the plant outside ofColumbia,Maryland.

[summit daWg]

ORIGINAL: falcon

Purely idiotic decision. This will just about kill Boeing. Look for the feds to propose some bailout for Boeing after they critically wounded the company.

This won't kill them, but it doesn't help at all. I do not work FOR Boeing, but as a worker of a construction subcontractor I have seen quite a few of those KC 767's go out the door for ***an. Already being built
Now Airbus approached our county regarding locating here because of the abundance of qualified workers, and the morons basically told them to buzz off.
Government....Don't you love it!!