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Air Force

Boeing Rejects Again Idea of Split Buy In Air Force KC-X Tanker Contest

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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

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By Michael Sirak Boeing [BA] remains resolutely against splitting the Air Force's multi-billion-dollar KC-X tanker program with rival Northrop Grumman [NOC], the senior official leading the company's KC-767 proposal said yesterday. "The bottom line for us is that we are really not interested in a split buy," Mark McGraw, Boeing Tanker Program manager, said Dec. 10 during a teleconference with reporters. "We are in this for winner take all. That is how the competition was defined. That is how the…

Congress

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