The emotions ran the gamut from glee to gloom when the Government Accountability Office announced it hadupheld Boeing’s protest over the award of the Air Force KC-X tanker program to Northrop Grumman-EADS. We offer here a collection of comments from lawmakers on both sides of the issue.
Facing competition from fast-growing startups, Lockheed Martin is speeding up production of an “affordable, scalable” hypersonic glide body, dubbed the Next Generation Glide Body, the firm said in a June 24 release.