If the Northrop team wins, the project will be based in El Segundo. But no matter who wins, thousands of jobs will come to Southern California.
McCain doesn't want tanker contract split between Boeing and Northrop(Bloomberg News) The new competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman-EADS to build an aerial refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force should remain a winner-take-all contest, Sen. John McCain said Friday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has rejected dividing the contract, "and I have too," said McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The tanker program has been delayed for years. Los Angeles-based Northrop and Airbus parent European Aeronautic, Defence & Space won a contract valued at $35 billion in February 2008; losing bidder Boeing successfully protested the award.
McCain's remarks were in reaction to a suggestion by some House members, including Rep. John Murtha, chairman of a House panel on military spending, that the award be split as a way to prevent the losing competitor from again protesting the decision to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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