Why does all the big KC-X news break while I'm sequestered at an unrelated press conference?
I was just sitting down for a Pentagon media roundtable on the C-130 in June when the GAO upheld Boeing's protest. And I was in the midst of a 3-hr briefing today by BAE Systems when the Secretary of Defense Bob Gates released the decision to cancel the competition.
Canceling the competition is the greater surprise, to my mind. They gave up? Threw in the towel? Why? What does the current administration have to lose by moving forward on the competition, if they are leaving office after January anyway? Why not continue to try to do what they believed was best for the air crews who need a new tanker? They can't control what happens after they select a bidder, but don't they still have a duty to at least try?
I was just sitting down for a Pentagon media roundtable on the C-130 in June when the GAO upheld Boeing's protest. And I was in the midst of a 3-hr briefing today by BAE Systems when the Secretary of Defense Bob Gates released the decision to cancel the competition.
Canceling the competition is the greater surprise, to my mind. They gave up? Threw in the towel? Why? What does the current administration have to lose by moving forward on the competition, if they are leaving office after January anyway? Why not continue to try to do what they believed was best for the air crews who need a new tanker? They can't control what happens after they select a bidder, but don't they still have a duty to at least try?
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