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Article: United States: Northrop presses Pentagon to force Boeing to release tanker pricing data.
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- October 29, 2009
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Byline: kusumv03
Northrop Grumman officials on Wednesday signaled they will resort to all means available, including legal action, to convince the Pentagon to release pricing data from Boeing that could prove critical in the battle to win a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract.
Northrop and partner EADS North America fear the Pentagon will make its choice based largely on price, which they refer to as a cost shootout. They believe that would put the Northrop-EADS team at a disadvantage because Boeing already knows the cost of Northrop s offering from a previous competition for the tanker that was overturned.
Northrop officials are pressing the ...