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This may be the most politicized defense contract in recent history.

Boeing tanker ally eyes $5 mln per plane Airbus duty

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A Boeing Co (BA.N) ally in Congress urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to add as much as $5 million per plane to a rival trans-Atlantic team's bid to supply new U.S. mid-air refueling aircraft.

Rep. Norm Dicks, a member of the House of Representatives Defense Appropriations subcommittee, floated the figure as part of a renewed push by Boeing's political backers, aimed at factoring a September interim global trade ruling into the tanker contract battle.

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Last month's LCROSS satellite crash into the moon has allowed NASA to find water ice in a dark lunar crater.

LCROSS was built by Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach.

Here's the wire story:

NASA finds water found on the moon

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, the US space agency NASA said Friday, boosting hopes of eventually setting up a permanent lunar base.

Preliminary data from a moon probe "indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater," NASA said.

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Northrop Grumman in El Segundo does structural design work on the F-35.

F-35 total may be cut by half, report says

Manufacturer disputes findings

(Air Force Times) Rising costs, changing threats and rival aircraft -- manned and unmanned -- could cut nearly in half the number of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters that ultimately are built, a Dutch defense analyst said in a report to the Dutch parliament. And if fewer planes are built, the price for each, already $100 million or more, will undoubtedly increase, analyst Johan Boeder warned.

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Will this voice the results of this latest tanker competition? Oh, boy.

Boeing refused to release tanker pricing -Pentagon

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing declined a Pentagon request to release Boeing's pricing information from the last aerial tanker competition after Northrop raised concerns that it was disadvantaged by the Air Force's release of Northrop's pricing data to Boeing, according to a Pentagon letter.

Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson told Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N) in a letter dated Sept. 23, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters, that defense officials did not believe the company was competitively harmed by Boeing Co's (BA.N) knowledge of "some of the prior pricing" and remained convinced that "the integrity of the procurement process will be maintained without the release of additional pricing information."

But Johnson said the Pentagon "actually sought Boeing's permission to release this information, and Boeing declined," according to the letter.

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The satellite that hit the moon, LCORSS, was built in Redondo Beach by Northrop Grumman Corp.

NASA photos show moon strike created plume

(AP) LOS ANGELES - NASA's much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said.

New images show a mile-high plume of lunar debris from the Cabeus crater shortly after the space agency's Centaur rocket struck Oct. 9.

"We were blown away by the data returned," Anthony Colaprete, the mission's chief scientist, said in a report Friday from the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., which managed the launch. "The team is working hard on the analysis, and the data appear to be of very high quality."

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This could be serious. Will this latest tanker contest result in yet another reversal?

Northrop: Boeing has 'unfair' edge in tanker deal

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has given Boeing Co. an "unfair" advantage in the latest competition for a troubled $35 billion tanker contract, a Northrop Grumman Corp. executive said Tuesday.

The Pentagon shared Northrop's pricing data from its previous bid with Chicago-based Boeing, but did not reveal Boeing's cost estimates to Northrop.

"It is fundamentally unfair, and distorts any new competition, to provide such critical information to only one of the bidders," Paul Meyer, a Northrop Grumman vice president, said in a statement. "The company will continue to work with its customer to fully resolve this issue."

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This tanker contest will be the most talked-about aerospace contract for the next year or so.

EADS, Northrop May Have To Tweak Tanker Bid

PARIS (Dow Jones)--European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co NV (EAD.FR) and its U.S. partner, Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC), may have to revise their proposal for a U.S. military airborne refuelling tanker to take into account new technical requirements from the Pentagon, EADS' chief executive officer said Monday.

EADS and Northrop Grumman have teamed up to try to win a $40 billion contract to supply 179 airborne refuelling tankers against U.S. rival Boeing Co (BA). The Pentagon issued a new request for proposals for a plane, provisionally dubbed the KC-X, to replace its ageing fleet of KC-135 tankers.

Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of an event, Louis Gallois said the new requirements involve the mission systems capability of the aircraft that will win the contest some time next year.

Offering two different planes provides added flexibility because of the varied missions the tanker would go on. But wouldn't that increase the cost since two aircraft would have to be modified instead of just one?

Boeing may offer US Air Force two tankers

(Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) said it might offer a choice of its aircraft against a rival Airbus model in a renewed trans-Atlantic tussle to build a multibillion-dollar refueling fleet for the U.S. Air Force.

The Chicago-based aerospace giant said on Friday it was deciding whether to stick with its modified 767 tanker, which lost a previous, canceled competition to an Airbus A330 model, or go with a larger 777-based tanker -- or offer both.

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Get ready for a massive PR war between Boeing and Northrop over the Air Force's aerial refueling tanker contract.

Boeing launches tanker Web site

(LA Biz Journal) The Boeing Co. has launched a new Web site dedicated to its efforts to win the U.S. Air Forces' refueling tanker contract.

The aircraft manufacturer announced the new site, www.UnitedStatesTanker.com, Monday at the Air Force Association's 2009 Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition outside Washington, D.C.

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I'm sure Northrop would take issue with this opinion.

Boeing is the best company to build the Air Force tanker

(Seattle Times) TENS of thousands of good-paying jobs in the United States, many of them in Washington's aerospace industry, are riding on the outcome of a Pentagon decision.

The issue is which aircraft will be chosen to serve as the military's new refueling tanker. It's a huge contract -- $35 billion for about 180 planes.

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I wonder how many other hard drives with sensitive information are floating around the world.

Data included contracts with TSA, NASA and Defense Intelligence Agency

(MIS Asia) SAN FRANCISCO, 24 JUNE 2009 - A team of journalists investigating the global electronic waste business has unearthed a security problem too. In a Ghana market, they bought a computer hard drive containing sensitive documents belonging to U.S. government contractor Northrop Grumman.

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