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Third reason to add to Tom’s two excellent reasons. Northrop-Grumman is the US half of the winning tanker deal, which is NOT a French aircraft though it is based on an Airbus design. The majority of work in the NG proposal will be of American manufacture, in American facilities, with American workers. NG has not won a piloted military plane program since the B2, and NG presented the best proposal by a million miles. Boeing’s proposal was quite frankly not even responsive to the RFP.

Those who are getting mad at the decision should blame Boeing for putting out such a shoddy proposal.