Nasty Battle Deepens Over Air Force Super Tucano Deal; Foreigners, Buy American, George Soros All In Play -- Aol Defense
If you thought the Republican primaries had turned ugly, wait till you see what it takes to win an Air Force contract nowadays. The feud between Hawker Beechcraft and Sierra Nevada Corporation over the Light Air Support contract has escalated from the usual appeals to the GAO up to a lawsuit, a freeze on the program, an online battle between the competitors websites, a write-your-Congressman campaign, all of it leavened lately by online conspiracy theories involving international financier George Soros.
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My Comment: The Sierra Nevada Corporation is trying it's best to explain on why they should keep the contract .... that they had won it fair and square. But this is a tight election year, and the political focus in Washington is to keep jobs in America and not in Brazil. Expect this fight to get even messier.
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