Senate KC-X Hearing Sheds Little New Light On Data Mishap

By Marcus Weisgerber / January 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Few new details about the Air Force's inadvertent disclosure of KC-X evaluation data to rival contractors emerged today during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the snafu. The hearing essentially gave supporters of Boeing and EADS -- the two bidders in the $35 billion competition -- a chance to debate a number of political issues surrounding the contract, and not the Nov. 22, 2010, incident in which the Air Force mistakenly shipped disks containing information about its evaluation of...

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