The lost Boeing contract

[xoxoxoBruce]

tw's been reading to many scandal sheets.

On Boeing's end, it was two employees, and on the governments end one woman in the pentagon, that were colluding to find employment at Boeing for the woman after she left the government. Also, the Boeing people gave jobs to the womans two children. Both Boeing people and the pentagon woman, lost their jobs and went to jail. Now the other 99.99999%, of the something like 150,000 Boeing employees, have to sit through days of ethics lectures, on not abusing opportunities that they never get anyway.

Boeing tried to convince the Air Force they should change the specs to a larger capacity tanker, for which Boeing would use a larger airframe. The Air Force flatly refused, so Boeing went with the 767 airframe to keep the cost down. Boeing won the competition, but Northrop/EADs protested and the contract was rebid. During the rebid, Northrop/EADs changed their design to a larger airframe with more capacity. The Air Force saw more bling and chose it, saying it would give them more capacity without regard to the increased price or unproven track record. This is the basis for Boeing's current protest to the GAO, who unlike the Air Force, look at bang for the buck.