A Boeing artist's concept of the Air Force's next-generation tanker, based on its 767 airframe (Boeing illustration via Aviation Week) With any luck, we’ll know the “latest� winner of the Air Force tanker competition in December, more than five years after the process first began. The new dead...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that the Pentagon will hold a new, fast-tracked competition to replace the Air Force's aging fleet of aerial refueling tankers, a move that overturns the previous award of the contract to Northrop Grumman....

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. HOW NORTHROP-GRUMMAN EMPLOYEES CAME TO BE POW's COLUMBIAN REVOLUTIONARY ARMY (FARC) HOLDS D.O.D. CONTRACTORS FOR YEARS FARC HOSTAGE BETANCOURT FREED NORTHRUP-GRUMMAN MERCENARIES FREED The Contractors Were Carrying Out Covert Military Operations Without Benefit Of Soldier Status As students of the ...

If you live in Alabama, and in or near the City Mobile in particular, then you know all about the big battle over the new tanker for the US Air Force. Perhaps you know more than you really wanted to know! There are billboards, TV commercials, newspaper and magazine ads everywhere. For those that don...

While the GAO is still reviewing the Northrop-Grumman tanker deal, opponents of the contract are already plotting their next move. Aviation Week reports that Washington Congressman Norman Dicks is working with Pennsylvania's John Murtha on legislation that would prevent the Air Force from awarding t...

An artist's rendering of the B-2 "Spirit" being refueled by the new KC-45 (insert nickname here). Illustration courtesy of Northrop-Grumman. While the Government Accountability Office prepares its final decision on the USAF tanker contract, the service is trying to come up with a name for its new re...

Not every part of the nation's economy is sagging, despite all the grim news: Exports are surging....

The new earmark kings? Washington Democrat Norman Dicks (top) and Kansas Republican Todd Tiahrt are supporting a bill that would defund the Air Force's new tanker contract (awarded to Northrop-Grumman), in favor of a bid from rival Boeing. The Tiahrt-Dicks plan would be a $35 billion earmark, the la...

Prosecutors called Chi Mak the "perfect sleeper agent," though he hardly looked the part. For two decades, the bespectacled Chinese-born engineer lived quietly with his wife in a Los Angeles suburb, buying a house and holding a steady job with a U.S. defense contractor, which rewarded him with......