{"id":187728,"date":"2011-03-21T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/21\/the-tanker-competition-is-over\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T01:04:00","slug":"the-tanker-competition-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/21\/the-tanker-competition-is-over\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tanker Competition is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2011\/03\/04\/353951\/eads-concedes-kc-x-contract-award-to-boeing.html\">EADS will not challenge the award of the KC-X contract award to Boeing<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of surprised.&nbsp; I expected the USAF to find a way to f%$# this up again, but I guess that they will have to do that during procurement, and I am confident that the good folks at the Pentagon and Boeing will manage to find <b>many<\/b> ways to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EADS will not challenge the award of the KC-X contract award to Boeing. I&#8217;m kind of surprised.&nbsp; I expected the USAF to find a way to f%$# this up again, but I guess that they will have to do that during procurement, and I am confident that the good folks at the Pentagon and Boeing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}