Mobile and Baldwin County News
With the deadline for bids in the U.S. Air Force’s long-running aerial refueling tanker competition arriving this week, the debate over which manufacturer would build the next generation of tankers…
With the deadline for final bids on the Air Force’s multibillion-dollar aerial refueling tanker contract arriving, much of the public debate around the competition has centered on a familiar question…
The GAO was expected to rule by Thursday on Boeing's protest of the Air Force tanker award, a decision with major stakes for a planned Northrop Grumman/EADS assembly line in…
The U.S. Air Force admitted a cost-calculation error that had favored Boeing in the tanker contract evaluation, adding a new twist to a dispute with direct stakes for a proposed…
A retired executive told the Rotary Club of Mobile in June 2008 that Forward Mobile, an unpublicized circle of about 40 civic and business leaders, had quietly shaped decades of…
As Boeing protested the Air Force's tanker contract award, Mobile-area supporters of the rival Northrop Grumman/EADS bid organized a Facebook group urging residents to weigh in through a congressional survey.
Sen. Richard Shelby used a Financial Times op-ed to defend the Air Force's tanker contract award to a Northrop Grumman-EADS team, arguing the deal would bring thousands of jobs to…