Contract tanked.CONTRACT TANKED: The 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 will re-open a $35 billion contract to build the Air Force's next generation refueling tankers originally awarded to Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. Corp. and the European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. aerospace consortium. The new bid, which will be supervised su·per·vise tr.v. su·per·vised, su·per·vis·ing, su·per·vis·es To have the charge and direction of; superintend. [Middle English *supervisen, from Medieval Latin by the Pentagon, indicates that the Defense Department has lost confidence in the Air Force's ability to manage the contract. The contract originally was awarded to Northrop Grumman last February in a decision that led Boeing to file a formal protest. |
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