Alabama Senator Sessions To Offer Amendment Affecting KC-X Competition
It is reported that Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will attempt to amend the 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill so that the Air Force will be made to share Boeing cost data with Northrop Grumman. Boeing was provided some Northrop cost information as part of the resolution of the last contract and Northrop feels that it will allow them to do better on this one. They asked for the same data. Sessions’ Amendment supposedly will prevent money being spent on the program unless the Air Force does this.
Alabama Expresses Pessimism On KC-X Said,
October 15, 2009 @ 2:18 am
[...] The Northrop Grumman and EADS team will build their tanker in Mobile, AL if they win the contract again. Last year when they had done so before the Boeing protest the plant was ready to go. This means that the team has the support of Alabama’s politicians and media. Senator Sessions had tried to get language inserted into a defense funding bill that might have help…. [...]