The Air Force will have to pay three contractors that were cheated out of a fair competition in 2001 for the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program when former Air Force acquisition official Darleen Druyun gave the contract to Boeing, per a new Government Accountability Office ruling. Rebecca Christie of Dow Jones Newswires reports that the GAO rejected USAF’s claim that the three companies—Lockheed Martin, L3 Communications, and BAE Systems—already had received adequate compensation. GAO originally ruled in favor of the three contractors in 2005.
The Air Force is renaming its traditional aviation bonus program in 2024 and continuing a new, experimental second program, ordered by Congress, aimed at getting aviators to extend their commitment sooner and for longer. While the programs can’t be doubled-up, aviators may be able to move from one to the…