Air force tanker: a competition, but not really.Politics is a huge piece of an upcoming competition between Boeing and the European conglomerate conglomerate, in business conglomerate, corporation whose asset growth, often very rapid, comes largely through the acquisition of, or merger with, other firms whose products are largely unrelated to each other or to that of the parent company. Airbus to build possibly hundreds of aerial refueling Aerial refueling, also called Air refueling or in-flight refueling (IFR) or air-to-air refueling (AAR) or (in the UK) tanking. Note that AAR also stands for "After Action Review" (de-briefing) and in aviation, IFR also stands for tankers for the U.S. Air Force. Many industry insiders agree that it is unlikely that Airbus will win the contract, and that the tanker competition is only a facade facade (fəsäd`), exterior face or wall of a building. The term implies ordered placement of its openings and other features and thus seems inapplicable to a wall without design. . The Defense Department in fact does not care if there is competition as long as it gets the product it wants, said Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering acquisition chief Kenneth Krieg. In the tanker program, he said, the goal was to "create an interesting model for more than one competitor to participate in ... But we especially wanted to make sure that the request for a proposal we put out there was for a product that we wanted, not for a product that ensured a competition ... More competition is better than less competition, but to have to go to a competition for something you don't want then sends you off into an environment you don't want to be in." |
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