{"id":192665,"date":"2009-03-07T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/07\/the-tanker-competion-is-back\/"},"modified":"2009-03-07T07:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T12:19:00","slug":"the-tanker-competion-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/07\/the-tanker-competion-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tanker Competion is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the 767-A330 competion rebid advanced, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/02\/26\/tanker-moves-through-jroc\/\">Joint Requirement Oversight Council is reviewing the new requirements for the recompete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is going to be a long and expensive process, and the A330 is superior (more flexible, longer range, carries more fuel, and the tanker is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">flying now<\/span>), and Murtha&#8217;s suggestion for a dual buy to forestall another challenge is ruinously expensive over the life of the program.<\/p>\n<p>Won&#8217;t be pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the 767-A330 competion rebid advanced, as the Joint Requirement Oversight Council is reviewing the new requirements for the recompete. This is going to be a long and expensive process, and the A330 is superior (more flexible, longer range, carries more fuel, and the tanker is flying now), and Murtha&#8217;s suggestion for a dual buy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1016,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-international-commerce","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192665"}],"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=192665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}