By Marina Malenic The Defense Department is laying the groundwork to revive a competition to produce the Air Force's next-generation KC-X aerial refueling tanker with a 'best-and-final price' bid by industry competitors Boeing and Northrop Grumman if the next president's administration chooses to do so, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer said yesterday. The two tankers submitted to the Air Force were "both deemed technically outstanding" and met the service's requirements, said John Young, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology…
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