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Article: Boeing will protest a $35B Air Force refueling tanker award given to EADS/Northrop team
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- March 10, 2008
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Boeing Co. on Monday said it will formally protest a $35 billion (euro22.82 billion) Air Force contract awarded to European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp.
The Chicago-based aerospace company "found serious flaws in the process that we believe warrant appeal," Boeing's chairman and CEO, Jim McNerney, said in a statement.
Boeing's protest, to be filed Tuesday, compounds existing pressure on Air Force officials to explain their decision to award the high-stakes deal to a European company instead of an American one. There has been fierce backlash on Capitol Hill, led by lawmakers from Washington, Kansas and other states that would have ...