GAO SUSTAINS BOEING KC-X TANKER PROTEST, RIPS AIR FORCE ACQUISITION

/ June 20, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The Government Accountability Office has sustained Boeing's protest of the Air Force's multibillion-dollar refueling tanker contract award to a Northrop Grumman-EADS business team, pushing the service toward rebidding the contract. "Our review of the record led us to conclude that the Air Force had made a number of significant errors that could have affected the outcome of what was a close competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman," according to a GAO statement issued June 18. "We therefore sustained Boeing's protest...

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