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Air Force

Gansler: Congress Should Stay Out of Air Force Tanker Protest

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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford Former Pentagon acquisition chief Jacques Gansler said Congress should not "meddle" in the Air Force's contested tanker contract award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] and foreign partner European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS), and predicted the tanker uproar will test Pentagon procurement processes. Speaking yesterday in The Atlantic Council's Washington office with other advocates of increased U.S.-European defense purchasing cooperation, Gansler said the tanker skirmish "is a test for the United States in the sense that we…

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