{"id":199369,"date":"2007-08-07T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/07\/boeing-us-air-force-attempt-to-rig-tanker-competition\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T10:24:00","slug":"boeing-us-air-force-attempt-to-rig-tanker-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/07\/boeing-us-air-force-attempt-to-rig-tanker-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing, US Air Force Attempt to Rig Tanker Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a long history of Boeing and the Department of Defense attempting to cut a deal to avoid competition on this program.  In fact, a DOD official went to jail over this.<\/p>\n<p>They have now jointly come out with a statement that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/airforce\/Boeing_US_Air_Force_oppose_splitting_tanker_order100012861.php\">the tanker order should not be split<\/a>, claiming that the logistics and development duplication would be prohibitive.<\/p>\n<p>This is a lie.  There are numerous airlines that operate both the B-767 and the A-330.<\/p>\n<p>As to development costs, both manufacturers are making flying these tankers in preparation of delivery overseas customers.<\/p>\n<p>What is true is that it would completely politically untenable to shut Boeing out of this deal, and by adding this sort of requirement, you make Boeing the only choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a long history of Boeing and the Department of Defense attempting to cut a deal to avoid competition on this program. In fact, a DOD official went to jail over this. They have now jointly come out with a statement that the tanker order should not be split, claiming that the logistics &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199369"}],"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=199369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}