Gates Considered Changing Tanker Competition Ground Rules

Credit: U.S. DEFENSE DEPT./CHERIE CULLEN
Defense Secretary Robert Gates didn’t want to scrap the revised Air Force replacement tanker competition but says issuing new ground rules in the waning days of the Bush administration would have raised eyebrows. “Part of my concern was, frankly, I didn’t like the smell of approving a potentially...

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