{"id":197021,"date":"2008-03-07T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/07\/the-tanker-soap-opera-part-1-of-way-too-many\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T22:33:00","slug":"the-tanker-soap-opera-part-1-of-way-too-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/07\/the-tanker-soap-opera-part-1-of-way-too-many\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tanker Soap Opera, Part 1 of Way Too Many"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, you can check out just how aggressively the politicians from Boeing<\/strike> Washington and Kansas are flipping out, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I haven’t heard such hystirical muddled thinking since I argued with someone over the lone gunman theory.<\/p>\n

Mostly, I see this as parochial politics, though there are Democrats out there who also see it as a club to use against John McCain, who torpedoed the original, highly corrupt and expensive, deal, it what might have been the only time he’s been right in his entire career.<\/p>\n

There is at least a small good coming from the folks running around like chickens with their heads chopped off though, it appears that the outbrief on the decision<\/a>, giving a rundown of the competition, will be accelerated to provide data as soon as possible to lawmakers and the public.<\/p>\n

Even so, I expect a challenge from Boeing that will not be resolved until 2009 at the earliest.<\/p>\n

There are also some indications that Boeing was sloppy on its bid<\/a>. It appears that they did not provide a lot of deal on some of their cost estimates, which led to some downrating.<\/p>\n

DID also has an analysis of the 9 Key Performance Parameters<\/a> (KPP) for the bid, and it’s pretty clear that EADS won or tied them all, and I would particularly note that it demolished the Boeing bid for cargo capacity, and tanking at 1000 and 2000 miles from a base, both of which are critical in the Pacific theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, you can check out just how aggressively the politicians from Boeing Washington and Kansas are flipping out, here, and here. I haven’t heard such hystirical muddled thinking since I argued with someone over the lone gunman theory. Mostly, I see this as parochial politics, though there are Democrats out there who also see it …<\/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-197021","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\/197021"}],"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=197021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}