Dont forget we subsidize Boeing with low interest loans and taxpayer funded research so they dont have to.
The Pentagon announced Thursday that it has selected
Boeing to supply a new generation of aerial refueling tankers in a deal worth more than $30 billion.
"Boeing was a clear winner," Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said after Secretary of the Air Force
Michael Donley announced the winner of the years-long competition.
Donley said Boeing beat out its archrival,
European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS), to provide 179 tankers in the first phase of the program to replace the aerial refueling fleet. He indicated that both companies met all 372 mandatory requirements of the contract but that Boeing submitted the lower bid.
The tanker is to be designated the KC-46A, and the first planes are to be delivered by 2017, Donley said.
"This was a spirited competition, with both offerers acquitting themselves well," he told a Pentagon news conference.
The competition for the contract ...
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