A leading aerospace analyst believes the Air Force’s preference for lowest price in the T-X trainer program is discouraging potential bidders from competing.“The Air Force is really running this competition as a price shootout,” Teal Group Vice President of Analysis Richard Aboulafia said Wednesday in an email. Lowest price wins, he said, “as long as the competitor meets the performance parameters.”For the second time in one week, a potential T-X contractor announced it would not submit a bid. On Wednesday,…
