GAO Sustains Second CSAR-X Protest

By Carlo Muñoz / August 30, 2007 at 5:00 AM
Program auditors from the Government Accountability Office have sustained a second round of industry protests filed against the Air Force over its selection of the Boeing-built HH-47 as the service's new combat search and rescue helicopter, according to a GAO statement released today. GAO auditors sided with CSAR-X competitors Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky, noting that the Air Force's "determination to preclude revisions to the proposals" after the air service "materially changed the solicitation's evaluation scheme" was unfair to the each...

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