EADS notified the Pentagon today that it would submit a solo bid for the Air Force's $35 billion next-generation tanker competition, company officials announced in Washington. Citing many of the same points stated by former partner Northrop Grumman during the last round of the competition, top EADS brass spoke confidently about their company's decision to pitch a modified Airbus A330 in the lucrative competition for 179 aerial refueling aircraft. "I believe that the development costs of this aircraft will be...
