More than a dozen business segments from major defense contractors muscled their way to a privileged Air Force supplier status in 2016 compared to 2015 in the service's third annual ranking of so-called "superior suppliers" -- a new positioning that also included downgrades, including eight business units that were dropped entirely. On July 25, the Air Force released its 2016 Superior Supplier Incentive Program ratings , a campaign to publicly recognize individual business segments of more than 20 parent companies...