Breaking a long-standing history of not protesting Pentagon contract awards, Boeing announced today it would protest the Air Force's decision to award the KC-X next-generation tanker contract to a Northrop Grumman-EADS team. "Fundamentally it was . . . how the Air Force evaluated the bidders verses the requirements," Mark McGraw, Vice President for Tanker Programs, told Inside the Air Force during a brief interview tonight. "There was a lot of vagueness in the requirements especially when it came to the...
