OSD rejects Boeing proposal to put COTS engine on B-52H

The Air Force has rejected an unsolicited proposal from Boeing Company to enhance the B-52H bomber with a modern, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) engine because it would be too costly, even though it offers improved capability, Noel Longuemare, the Pentagon's deputy acquisition chief, informed...

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