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• US Air Forces $40bn aerial refuelling tanker contract hangs in the balance

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The fate of a controversial $40bn (£24bn) US air tanker contract hangs in the balance after a main player in one of only two consortia threatened to pull out of the running.
  2 hours ago

• SECDEF Gates: "We would like to see competition continue in this process"

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 598
  Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, questions Secretary of Defense Robert Gates about the KC-X competition. Sessions represents Mobile, Alabama, the site of Northrop Grummans proposed final assembly center for the KC-45 tanker. Northrop has threatened to withdraw from the competition unless Gates staff makes several key ...
  8 hours ago

• Boeing could win the Pentagons $35 billion tanker deal -- with no competition

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Company News , Boeing The Air Force, still in need of airborne refueling craft, plans to buy 179 of these so-called tankers starting in fiscal 2011. The $35 billion contract for turning out about 15 planes a year may be awarded by June 2010, according to Bloomberg Ne ws . The Air Force has ...
  11 hours ago

• Northrup dropping out of tanker bid?

  
  ricksblog.biz — Authority: 139
  It may be a bluff to force the Pentagon to rewrite the bid specs, but Wes Bush, president and chief operating officer of Northrop, said in a letter delivered to Under Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter that the company “cannot proceed to submit a bid.” Read this
  13 hours ago

• Northrop may drop out of tanker bidding

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Northrop Grumman has warned it wont bid for the massive Air Force refueling tanker program unless the Pentagons draft request for proposals is rewritten. Northrop CEO Wes Bush wrote to Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter on Tuesday that since the Pentagon has declined to alter the request for proposals (RFP), "I ...
  21 hours ago

• Northrop Could Withdraw From Bidding on Tanker

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  The company wants the Pentagon to change the bid rules, knowing that a lack of competition would probably mean a higher price for the planes.
  23 hours ago

• Northrop may withdraw tanker bid (Politico)

  
  enUws — Authority: 171
  Politico – Northrop Grumman threatens to withdraw from the competition for a $35B contract over aircraft dispute. More: (Politico)"> (Politico)">Northrop may withdraw tanker bid (Politico)
  1 day ago

• Northrop CEO writes Pentagon: No RFP changes, no KC-X bid

  
  The DEW Line — Authority: 598
  Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush today warned that the company will withdraw from the KC-X competition if the Pentagon refuses to make certain changes to the request for proposal. The letter is posted below and clearly contradicts a story by StreetInsider.com stating that Northrop has already dropped out of the ...
  1 day ago

• Northrop links to academics to boost cyber defense (Reuters)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  Reuters - Northrop Grumman Corp unveiled Tuesday an industry-academic research group to tackle growing cyber threats to U.S. computer networks and to networked infrastructure.
  1 day ago

• Flats Sequencing Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Bravado

  
  Dead Tree Edition — Authority: 120
  Despite equipment problems, schedule delays, and evidence of engineering miscues, postal officials are eagerly moving ahead with installation of the Flats Sequencing System.The U.S. Postal Service’s recently released annual report says FSS “is revolutionizing the way we process flat-size mail, such as magazines ...
  1 day ago

• Northrop Grumman Reaches Out to Academia

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 428
  Northrop Grumman has reached out to three major cyber research universities to help advance research and develop effective cyber security solutions. The three schools, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue University and MIT, were asked to join a Cybersecurity Research Consortium. The consortium is meant to leverage the ...
  1 day ago

• Boeing EA-18G Growler to advance to full rate production

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 438
  The Boeing EA-18G Growler was approved to advance into Full Rate Production (FRP) by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) on Nov. 23. The St. Louis-based EA-18G program now can proceed from Low Rate Initial Production to FRP quantities of approximately 20 aircraft per year.
  1 day ago

• Cobham Enables Airbus A330 Air-to-Air Refuelling Flight Demonstrations — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 438
  Cobham Enables Airbus A330 Air-to-Air Refuelling Flight Demonstrations WIMBORNE, United Kingdom – Cobham air-to-air refuelling pods have successfully demonstrated the ability to transfer fuel from the Airbus Military A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) to Spanish Air Force F-18s with a series of ...
  2 days ago

• Air Force Buys Five Global Hawks

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 438
  Despite the debate in Congress over how many Global Hawks could be ordered with the 2010 money the Air Force went ahead and used their Continuing Resolution Authority (CRA) money to buy five. The House had written into their version of the Defense Appropriations bill that only three could be purchased due to ...
  2 days ago

• Australia’s Troubled E-737 “Wedgetail” AWACS Program

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 563
  E-737 Wedgetail over New South Wales (click to view full) The island continent of Australia faces a number of unique security challenges that stem from its geography. The continent may be separated from its neighbors by large expanses of ocean, but it also resides within a potential arc of instability, and has ...
  3 days ago

• (NOC) Northrop Grumman Corp Wins Military Contract

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 164
  Northrop Grumman Corp. ( NOC ) was awarded a $302.9 million fixed price incentive fee contract for five RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), by the U.S. Air Force. Earlier, the U.S. Air Force granted RQ-4 Global HALE with a military Airworthiness Certification (AWC), ...
  1 week ago

• KC-30 MRTT refuels fighters through boom, drogues

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 118
  EADS released these photos of the KC-30 MRTT refueling fighters. The company previously released photos of refueling as viewed through the 3D controller’s panel video screen. The MRTT has now “passed gas” (as we like to say, much to the consternation of the more straight-laced crowd) through the new flying boom ...
  1 week ago

• New Virginia IT Systems Lack Network Backup

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 146
  1sockchuck writes "Virginias new state IT system is experiencing downtime in key services because of a mind-boggling oversight: the state apparently neglected to require network backup in a 10-year, $2.3 billion outsourcing deal with Northrop Grumman. The issue is causing serious downtime for state services. This fall ...
  1 week ago

• Nortrop Grumman Faces Cuts to Global Hawk Production

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 438
  A little discussed part of the House’s version of the Defense Appropriations Bill is a cut in number of the Global Hawk strategic UAV from five to two. This was done because the House felt that the development of the latest version was behind schedule so some procurement dollars could be saved by delaying sixty ...
  1 week ago

• Pakistan’s JF-17 Fighter Program

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 563
  FC-1/ JF-17, armed (click to view full) Back in January 2007, DID wrote: “The military world has no shortage of irony. The defense industry has its moments too, as Pakistan just discovered. An aircraft whose development was driven by military sanctions from the US and Europe is now derailed by military ...
  1 week ago

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