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Boeing Could Offer Larger Tanker If Pentagon Sticks To Acquisition Strategy

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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

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By Marina Malenic PARIS--Anticipating the revival of an aerial refueling tanker fleet replacement competition with rival Northrop Grumman [NOC] in the coming weeks, Boeing [BA] executives here have indicated that they could offer the Air Force a tanker variant based on the company's commercial 777 airplane instead of the smaller 767 they bid unsuccessfully in last year's competition. "No matter what acquisition strategy they put forward, we're ready," David Bowman, vice president for Boeing tanker programs, told Defense Daily. Bowman…

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