Boeing

March 10, 2008 -- OLYMPIA – Washington Governor Chris Gregoire’s today issued the following statement on Boeing’s appeal of the tanker contract:

“I fully support the Boeing Company’s decision today to formally protest the Air Force contract awarded to Airbus and Northrop Grumman.    » read more »

CONTRACTS

NAVY

Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded a $78,500,000 indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for the V-22 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) and Flight Training Device (FTD) products and revisions. This contract will provide analysis, design, development, upgrade, enhancements, integration, installation, test, training, maintenance, logistical support and configuration management for V-22 FFS and FTD training devices, Aircraft Common Operational Equipment (ACOE), FFS and FTD training device spare parts.    » read more »

Condemns McCain's Lobbying; Calls on Congress to Defund

March 4, 2008 -- PITTSBURGH - The United Steelworkers (USW) today denounced the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for awarding a contract for the construction of Air Force refueling tankers to the European firm, Airbus, and called for its defunding. The contract is worth up to $100 billion, with its value rising to $408 billion over its lifetime. The USW also decried Sen. John McCain for his role in lobbying the DOD on behalf of the French corporation.    » read more »

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March 5, 2008 - WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman John P. Murtha, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, issued the following statement before today’s open hearing on the Air Force contract award for the tanker replacement program with Ms. Sue Payton, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and LTG John “Jack” Hudson, ASC Commander and Program Executive Officer:

“This committee has done everything it could to speed up the decision by the Air Force to put tankers in the Air Force arsenal.    » read more »

04 March 2008 -- The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has promised an investigation of a contract to build new airborne tanker planes won by a partnership that includes the European parent of Airbus.

Representative Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said Monday the deal posed serious questions that Congress must examine thoroughly.

Last week, the U.S. Air Force awarded a $35-billion contract to build 179 new tanker planes to a partnership between the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company and U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman.    » read more »

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AIR FORCE (Revised)    » read more »

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AIR FORCE

The Air Force is awarding an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a maximum of $3,000,000,000. There will be twenty-five contracts awarded under Architecture-Engineer selection procedures to the following contractors:    » read more »

February 29, 2008 -- P-28 was designed to be a demonstration of critical technologies and system integration under the broader SBInet initiative. Specifically, its purpose was to demonstrate the feasibility of the SBInet technical approach developed by Boeing, and to show that this type of technology could be deployed to help secure the southwest border of the United States. The intended objective has been achieved – after successful field testing, we formally accepted it from Boeing last week.    » read more »

February 29, 2008 -- OLYMPIA – Washington Governor Chris Gregoire today expressed her disappointment that the Department of Defense chose not to award Boeing with the contract to build the next generation of Air Force tankers.

“This is unfortunate news for Boeing and the state of Washington. Boeing and its workers build the best planes in the world. They will continue to enjoy great success with their 787 Dreamliner and other innovative products still to come.    » read more »

February 24, 2008 -- David Brooks: "John McCain has a record for 23 years. Every year he goes to the floor of the Senate and makes fun of the earmarks that lobbyists have produced and his colleagues take a little piece of skin out of his back for ridiculing them. He tackled Jack Abramoff even though it made the Republican Party very uncomfortable. He tackled Boeing. "

Excerpts: David Brooks On "Meet The Press"    » read more »

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AIR FORCE    » read more »

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2008, WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former Boeing engineer was arrested this morning after being indicted last week on charges of economic espionage and acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), for whom the engineer stole Boeing trade secrets related to several aerospace programs, including the Space Shuttle.    » read more »

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AIR FORCE

Lockheed Martin Corp. of Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a firm fixed price contract for $103,084,511. This requirement covers sustaining services including logistics support, program management support, engineering services, repairs, spares and technical data in support of the C-130J unique systems. This modification is to exercise option 1 (years 3-5). At this time $12,547.328 has been obligated. 330 ACSG/GFKA, Robins Air Force Base, Ga., is the contracting activity (FA8504-06-D-0001-P00006).    » read more »

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