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Air Force To Proceed With KC-X Contest Despite Document Mix-Up

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Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

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By Marina Malenic NEW YORK--The Air Force said yesterday that it has sought to "level the playing field" after accidentally providing companies competing for the KC-X tanker replacement program data about each other's bids by later intentionally releasing the information to the firms. Air Force Col. Les Kodlick, a spokesman for the service, told Defense Daily that one of the firms had mistakenly opened a computer file containing information about its rival's airplane last month, while the other had not.…

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