Sierra Nevada Sees Delay In LAS Effort After Contract Cancellation

By Maggie Ybarra / February 28, 2012 at 9:54 PM
An Air Force decision announced today to cancel a $355 million contract awarded to Sierra Nevada Corp. will cause an additional delay in providing light attack support aircraft to Afghanistan by April 2013, according to one of the company's vice presidents. Taco Gilbert, vice president of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance business development for Sierra Nevada, said in a statement issued this afternoon that the company is disappointed in the service's decision to cancel the contract, which would have provided 20...

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