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Boeing Protests Lack Of Competition For Air Force’s Compass Call Replacement

By Marc Selinger

Thursday, May 25th, 2017

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Boeing Protests Lack Of Competition For Air Force’s Compass Call Replacement

An EC-130H Compass Call flies a training mission over Lake Mead, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Boeing [BA] is protesting the U.S. Air Force’s decision to forego a competition when it picked L3 Technologies [LLL] to provide a replacement for the EC-130H Compass Call electronic-attack aircraft.“We believe that the U.S. Air Force and taxpayer would be best served by a fair and open competition,” said Boeing, which filed a formal challenge with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last week.The Air Force has tasked L3 with choosing a new airframe and migrating mission equipment from the old…

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