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Pentagon offers new conditions for aircraft bid
Bahamas News.Net
Wednesday 6th August, 2008
The Pentagon has presented Northrop Grumman and Boeing with revised terms for a 35-billion dollar contract.
The new draft proposal will allow both companies to bid on the a new generation of aerial refueling tankers.
The new proposal addresses criticism of the Pentagon that a contract had been awarded unfairly to Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS.
A challenge by Boeing said there were significant errors in the air force's evaluation of the two bids.
Boeing complained of an unequal and misleading process.
The contract is for 179 aircraft, the initial phase of a fleet replacement project worth some 100 billion dollars over the next 30 years.
The Pentagon has established a timeline for discussions and consideration of the new proposals, that should lead to a decision in the first week of January.
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mikedku
08-06-08, 10:50 PM |
Pentagon offers new conditions for aircraft bid
In my opinion that 110 bil can be spent in more worthwhile project. Some 20 years from
now, maybe even lot less than 15 years from now it can all be zbsolete system, for we maybe busy exploring out of space system and by that time, we may come up with with a totally new energy system which
can help us to fly beyond what we imagine today with so much faster than we can imgaine today. So, why not spend such large sum of money on developing a new system. The rate of progression in sci/tech
will soon be exponential and we will surely see new system of energy by then.
Why not consult with all the scientists on the futurist org. 30 years is a long, long time and we should not wate such large sum of money for 30 yrs down the road when we
know such system can be no longer useful
by then. Thank you
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Anonymous
08-07-08, 12:04 PM |
Mikedku, you have your point, however, American defense industries to build military hardware in the States are still playing an important role of our America’s interior economic growth and American blue-collar livelihood. So, the brand new high-tech equipments are expensive once they just come out to market, once you buy and use it, the equipment just won’t cost the same value or turned into no value at all become a garbage. We all are good US taxpayers, not a big spender; how we lobby the Pentagon to let us to remodel the Pacific region’s retiring (after August) USS Kitty Hawk aircraft-career to become a College of Marine-Biology & Biological Pharmacy of Texas A&M University system, we’ll remove USS Kitty Hawk’s all missile launchers and make rooms to remodel more classrooms on board; after the remodeled Texas A&M University-Kitty Hawk will dock at Sabah’s Sandakan, East Malaysia of Sulu Sea for higher education and graduate school’s research & studies. To re-use our Pentagon’s old equipments for our American academic education and research advancement, to train our universities' ROTC students is better than to sink and abandon the USS Kitty Hawk down into the seabed.
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