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CSAR-X: Pentagon was pushing the USAF to favour Boeing

Washington, USA - The new deadline to put in a bid for the contract is April

Aerospace Daily reports that as recently as 2006, the Pentagon was pushing the Air Force to skip open bidding for the 15 billion dollars CSAR-X helicopter contract, preferring a directed buy that would have favored Boeing Co.'s MH-47 Chinook. In a telephone interview, Pentagon acquisition chief John Young said he was critical of the entire CSAR-X development process prior to his appointment in...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1099209
Rome, Italy, 01/30/2009 16:12
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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