{"id":197129,"date":"2008-02-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/28\/report-usaf-selects-eads-for-tanker-deal\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T23:00:00","slug":"report-usaf-selects-eads-for-tanker-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/28\/report-usaf-selects-eads-for-tanker-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: USAF Selects EADS for Tanker Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.malaysiasun.com\/index.php\/ct\/9\/cid\/3a8a80d6f705f8cc\/id\/331532\/cs\/1\/\">US Air Force makes a deal with foreign supplier<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Malaysian news source, and I call bullsh$#.  I just don&#8217;t see a way that a foreign contractor wins this outright, or even get over half of a split contract.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, the winner(s) will be announced in the next week.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, the biggest critic of the original deal, which was largely a gift to Boeing, was John McCain, and he&#8217;ll be busy for the next few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Air Force makes a deal with foreign supplier It&#8217;s a Malaysian news source, and I call bullsh$#. I just don&#8217;t see a way that a foreign contractor wins this outright, or even get over half of a split contract. In either case, the winner(s) will be announced in the next week. FWIW, the biggest &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-197129","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\/197129"}],"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=197129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}