USAF skips appeal deadline in GAO ruling

Reuters reports that the USAF skipped filing an appeal of the GAO decision in the tanker protest. This means it’s likely to follow the GAO recommendation to rebid the tanker. The question now is, what does “rebid” mean?… Read More

Aerospace sector tanks

In some non-tanker news, the aerospace sector tanked on the New York markets today. BE Aerospace, down 12.13%, $3.69 to $26.74 Spirit AeroSystems, down 8.63%, $2.04 to $21.60 Boeing: down 6.9%, $5.15 to $69.64. and so on…. Interestingly,… Read More

GAO Report issued

We haven’t read it, but here is it, all 67 pages in PDF form. b-311344__boeing__redacted_decision. Update, 1215 PM PDT: We’ve completed a quick read of the GAO decision. In it, the GAO found–as previously reported–for Boeing on a… Read More

USAF to GAO: Drop Dead

A reader just brought this report to our attention, which if true, is a real bombshell; it’s from DefenseTech.org. Top OSD Officials Think Tanker Deal Can Go Ahead Senior Pentagon and Air Force officials who have read the… Read More

Full GAO report expected this week

The full, 69-page GAO report is expected to be issued this week, redacted of proprietary information. The report could be issued as early as today, we’re told. As soon as we get it, we’ll post it. Meantime, fired… Read More

GAO decision–only the tip of the iceberg?

Newsweek has a piece about US Sen. John McCain and the KC-X tanker competition, quoting an unidentified Pentagon official about McCain’s involvement. This is the first article we’ve seen quoting a Pentagon official. As readers know, we were… Read More

GAO sustains Boeing’s protest

In another stunning twist in the USAF tanker contract, the GAO sustained the Boeing protest over the award to Northrop Grumman. In a three page press release, the GAO sustained Boeing on key elements of the protest while… Read More

Waiting with bated breath

It didn’t take long for one of our readers to e-mail us that the headline for our Corporate Website update today (June 17) had a misspelling: Waiting with baited breath. Well, be that as it may–we said it… Read More

Casey at the bat

We’re traveling and have limited access to reading things about the tanker, but we’ve seen the news about the USAF admitted a calculation error in the life cycle costs for the KC-30 vs the KC-767. This reminds us… Read More

Lots of Boeing, Airbus, tanker news

It’s been a busy 24 hours. In no particular order: Boeing drops out Boeing has dropped out of its participation to build the Joint Cargo Aircraft, called the C27J, because it could not reach a financial arrangement with… Read More