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Boeing Files Seventh Supplemental Tanker Protest With GAO

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Friday, April 25th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford Boeing [BA] last week filed a seventh revision of the protest it lodged with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in March against the Air Force's award of the aerial refueling tanker contract to Northrop Grumman [NOC]. "We file supplementals as we discover new information that is pertinent to our protest case," Boeing spokesman William Barksdale told Defense Daily. "Each supplemental incorporates and adds to the prior filings." After Boeing filed its initial protest of the tanker contract…

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