{"id":188675,"date":"2010-08-14T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/14\/i-see-a-gao-contract-challenge\/"},"modified":"2010-08-14T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T11:03:00","slug":"i-see-a-gao-contract-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/14\/i-see-a-gao-contract-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"I See a GAO Contract Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 400px; float: right; text-align: center;\">Click for full size<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img835\/4059\/afa4855bedbd49c595e5c4c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img835\/4059\/afa4855bedbd49c595e5c4c.jpg\" bordercolor=\"white\" border=\"0\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Picture h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A40d6bf55-c8f2-41ca-8fb8-5e2d104c1f69\">Amy Butler<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4740384&amp;c=AIR&amp;s=TOP\">Raytheon Beat Boeing for the successor contract for the small diameter bomb successor<\/a>, basically a form, fit, and function identical variant  with a &#8220;tri-mode seeker&#8221; to allow it to strike moving targets.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that they beat the prior prime, and considering that cost was something like 3<sup>rd<\/sup> on the priority list, I would expect a challenge here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full size Picture h\/t Amy Butler Raytheon Beat Boeing for the successor contract for the small diameter bomb successor, basically a form, fit, and function identical variant with a &#8220;tri-mode seeker&#8221; to allow it to strike moving targets. Considering that they beat the prior prime, and considering that cost was something like 3rd &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188675"}],"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=188675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}