Northrop Grumman will not compete in the Air Force's $35 billion KC-X tanker competition, the company said this afternoon. "After a comprehensive analysis of the final [request for proposals], Northrop Grumman has determined that it will not submit a bid to the Department of Defense for the KC-X program," company spokesman Randy Belote said in a statement released late this afternoon. "We reached this conclusion based on the structure of the source-selection methodology defined in the RFP, which clearly favors...
