U.S. Air Force Tanker Contract Competition Deadline May be Extended

This past Thursday, the Department of Defense announced that they may be willing to extend the May 10th deadline for bids on the U.S. Air Force tanker contract.  With this extension the Department of Defense hope to have EADS join the competition for this potential $40 billion contract.   Northrop Grumman Corp, as teamed with EADS the parent company of Airbus, announced earlier this month that they were quitting the contest because they believed the Air Force’s selection criteria favored Boeing.  An  EADS spokesman indicated to the Pentagon that they had possible interest in bidding with the extension, as May 10th was too soon for them to pull together a bid.

While there may still be hope for Mobile AL’s proposed aircraft assembly plant, they are likely to meet with opposition from Boeing whose political backers stated they would fight any attempt to extend the deadline.

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