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Rebuffed by Northrop, Boeing Won’t Rule Out GBSD Protest; Appeals to AF for Mandatory Partnership on New ICBM

Rebuffed by Northrop, Boeing Won’t Rule Out GBSD Protest; Appeals to AF for Mandatory Partnership on New ICBM
Boeing graphic on its Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program. Image: Boeing.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Keeping the threat of a bid protest in his back pocket, a Boeing executive said here Tuesday that the Air Force can save time and money building the next-generation of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles if the service scraps a competition in which only Northrop Grumman [NOG] is competing. “What I am suggesting is the Air Force pull us in a room together and say, you got 30 days to go figure out what is the right…

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