T-X Competition Now Includes Boeing-Saab Team

By Gabe Starosta / December 6, 2013 at 3:23 PM
Boeing has agreed to team with Saab to propose a new trainer for the Air Force, potentially rounding out the field for an eventual T-X competition. Although the Air Force has repeatedly deferred investing in a new trainer to replace the T-38 and appears likely to do so again in the fiscal year 2015 budget, industry teams have lined up to bid for whenever that program does get funded. The latest teaming arrangement announced today is between Boeing, which had...

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