{"id":195406,"date":"2008-07-10T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/10\/update-on-the-tanker-clusterf\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T22:59:00","slug":"update-on-the-tanker-clusterf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/10\/update-on-the-tanker-clusterf\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the Tanker Clusterf%$#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears part of the decision regarding the rebid has to do with DefSec Gates&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-fi-tanker10-2008jul10,0,5831704.story\">ongoing war with an insubordinate, and frequently incompetent, US Air Force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, USAF has been removed from the bid process.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that the decision will change, as Gates is asking for amended bids, not new ones, tough the competitors can submit a completely new bid, and he is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story_generic.jsp?channel=defense&amp;id=news\/REDO07098.xml&amp;headline=Pentagon%20Eyes%20New%20Tanker%20RFP%20By%20August\">expecting to issue a new request for proposals (RFP) in August, with a final decision in December<\/a>, and in order for Boeing to have a better aircraft, which it needs to have because its on time and on cost performance has been pathetic, it would need to submit some sort of modified 777.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears part of the decision regarding the rebid has to do with DefSec Gates&#8217; ongoing war with an insubordinate, and frequently incompetent, US Air Force. Among other things, USAF has been removed from the bid process. I don&#8217;t think that the decision will change, as Gates is asking for amended bids, not new ones, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195406"}],"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=195406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}