{"id":190704,"date":"2009-11-01T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/01\/usaf-tanker-is-still-moving-target\/"},"modified":"2009-11-01T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T04:03:00","slug":"usaf-tanker-is-still-moving-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/01\/usaf-tanker-is-still-moving-target\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF Tanker is Still Moving Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&amp;id=news\/KCX103009.xml\">U.S.A.F. is still open to making changes in the requirements and evaluation of proposals for the tanker program<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Halfway through the comment period for a draft request for proposals (<span>RFP<\/span>) for the U.S. Air Force\u2019s KC-X aerial refueling tanker competition, the top civilian overseeing the armed service says it is open to making changes where needed.<\/p>\n<p>The draft <span>RFP<\/span>, released Sept. 24, puts heavy emphasis on cost and includes 373 pass\/fail threshold requirements for participants. It further marks a shift from previous attempts to procure the 179 tankers needed to begin replacing Eisenhower-era KC-135s, as the Pentagon is pursuing a fixed-price development contract and production profile.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this what got the last contract award thrown out, moving targets that were deemed unfair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the U.S.A.F. is still open to making changes in the requirements and evaluation of proposals for the tanker program: Halfway through the comment period for a draft request for proposals (RFP) for the U.S. Air Force\u2019s KC-X aerial refueling tanker competition, the top civilian overseeing the armed service says it is open &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-190704","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\/190704"}],"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=190704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}