Leeham News and Analysis
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Leeham News and Analysis
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EADS’ ex-lobbyist quits McCain campaign
It generated a lot of headlines at the time of the USAF aerial tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman when it was revealed that a campaign adviser to Republican presidential candidate US Sen. John McCain one time had… Read More
Jumping the gun, perhaps?
Northrop Grumman announced the grounding breaking for its KC-45A tanker even though the Government Accountability Office hasn’t rendered its decision on the Boeing protest of the tanker contract award by the USAF to Northrop. This strikes us as… Read More
Checking jobs at Northrop? Check Boeing, too
US Sens. Patty Murray (D-Boeing) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) have asked the White House to investigate the claim by Northrop Grumman that 48,000 direct and indirect jobs will be created with the KC-30 program. The KC-30 will be… Read More
Dueling tanker press releases
In a rare confluence of timing, Boeing and Northrop Grumman issued press releases on the same topic at about the same time. Here they are, in their entirety; our commentary follows after the Northrop release: Boeing KC-767 Tanker:… Read More
To fuel or not to fuel
Here are a couple of items about the refueling capability of the KC-30/KC-330 tanker, which is one point of controversy in the continuing saga of the Boeing-Northrop Grumman tanker contract award. Boeing likes to point out that Northrop’s… Read More
News on the tanker, 787, Boeing earnings
The last 24 hours have been busy news days on the tanker and the 787. Reuters published a story yesterday about the Air Force calling the CEOs of Boeing and Northrop Grumman on the carpet for the vitriolic… Read More
Ominous development for Northrop’s tanker
An ominous political development for the Northrop tanker award by the USAF may be developing in the US Senate. An article today in The Washington Post discusses the future of Sen. Robert Byrd, chairman of the Senate Appropriations… Read More
Tanker wars, continued
Boeing and Northrop continue their tanker public relations war. Boeing fired off this press release about the KC-767’s “survivability” vs. the Northrop KC-30. Northrop fired off a release about jobs, steering people to a 3 1/2 minute National… Read More
KC-30, KC-767 prices revealed
In a remarkable piece of reporting, Reuters‘ Andrea Shalal-Esa uncovered the price offered by Northrop Grumman to the US Air Force for its KC-30 and from there the extrapolation of the price Boeing offered for the KC-767. Reuters… Read More
More on tanker
Here are some new developments on the continuing USAF tanker saga: Human Events publishes a rebuttal to a previous piece supporting Boeing. This one supports Northrop. Opponents to US Sen. John McCain continue to make hay over allegations… Read More