Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
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And the fury continues
The political fury over the USAF award of the KC-45A tanker to Northrop Grumman/EADS/Airbus continues. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA, our senator, BTW) has made overturning the award her mission in life. We generally support Murray on other issues,… Read More
Bad week for Boeing gets worse
Only two business days went by after Boeing lost the $40bn KC-X tanker contract to Northrop Grumman when word came down from the Pentagon’s top procurement official, John Young, that the military doesn’t need any more Boeing C-17… Read More
Priceless Op-Ed in the SEA Times
An editorial writer for The Mobile Press Register has a priceless, satirical op-ed piece in The Seattle Times about the tanker award. Read it here.
Business Week to Boeing: don’t protest tanker award
Business Week has an interesting commentary on why Boeing should not protest the USAF award to Northrop Grumman. This may be found here.
Boeing statement requesting immediate de-brief
Boeing Requests Immediate KC-X Tanker Briefing ST. LOUIS, March 4, 2008 – The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today made public a request for an immediate debriefing from U.S. Air Force officials on the KC-X tanker competition. As of… Read More
Assessing the fall-out on the tanker
In the three days since the USAF awarded the tanker contract to Northrop Grumman, the fallout has been swift and vitriolic. Before going there, we’ve updated our corporate website with some analysis of our own. We take a… Read More
Loren Thompson analyzes Northrop win
Lexington Institute analyst Loren Thompson analyzes the Northrop tanker win in his column today. He has some surprising facts and conclusions. This is a must-read for how Northrop won and Boeing lost. Here’s a podcast about the future… Read More
Press coverage of the tanker award
Here are some interesting articles about the tanker award to Northrop Grumman: From the Everett Herald, a look at the new Alabama aerospace center. From Europe’s AFP news service, US legislators blast award; From the Chicago Tribune, Boeikng… Read More
What does the Northrop win mean?
Every aerospace analyst surveyed by Bloomberg a week ago figured Boeing would win this competition. We did, too. So what happened? In the end, it came down to what we have been saying all along: did the Air… Read More