(Editor's Note: This story has been updated to reflect the fact that the KC-X contract Boeing was awarded covers the engineering and manufacturing development phase and the production of 179 aircraft. There will be no competition for the production phase of the contract. The Air Force will compete two follow-on phases to replace its remaining tanker fleet. Those phases are termed KC-Y and KC-Z.) Following a contentious competition that included the inadvertent release of bid evaluation data to rival...
