Thread: The United States Air Force is Under Attack!

The United States Air Force is Under Attack!

Our military men and women need your help!

The uniformed men and women of the U.S. Air Force deserve the best technology in order to perform their missions. However, our military has been operating strategic flights with Eisenhower era tanker refueling aircraft that need to be replaced.

Recently, the U.S. Air Force selected an American company, Northrop Grumman, to build America's new tanker. The company will be using 230 companies across America in 49 states-- companies that will employ thousands of Americans-- to support this vital project.

Despite our troops' urgent need for new tankers, the losing company in the competition, Boeing, is now protesting the contract award and their friends in Congress are doing everything possible to delay the process and reverse the decision.

What Boeing is doing is wrong -- wrong for the U.S. Air Force and wrong for our military men and women.

Our military men and women need your help!

Our friends at Citizens Against Government Waste have been actively engaged for six years in making sure that this tanker project is awarded through a fair and open competition. They are convinced the process was just that -- open and fair, resulting in the best company winning the contract.

You need to tell your US. Senators and Representative to stop the delay! Our troops need the tanker now!

Boeing and its congressional friends are doing everything they can to obstruct, delay and reverse the process.

Today, for example, Boeing took out a full page color advertisements in dozens of newspapers across America with the title "The Tanker Decision. Why It Doesn't Add Up." The text of the advertisement was nothing more than a laundry list of inaccuracies that have been part of their nationwide misinformation campaign about why they lost the competition to build the nation's next version of the aerial refueling tanker. Frankly, the ad was so erroneous and misleading we don't want to dignify it with a response.

However, Citizens Against Government Waste has closely watched this contracting process for a long time, and they're mindful of the fact that the only reason Northrop Grumman was allowed to bid on-- and win-- the contract in the first place is that Boeing's original tanker lease arrangement with the Air Force was fraudulent, could have over charged U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars, and resulted in a senior Boeing official going to jail on corruption charges.

With that in mind, here are the REAL facts Boeing won't tell you in its advertising:

1) The United States Air Force award was based on five criteria and Northrop Grumman won on four out of the five and tied in one category.

2) The competition was transparent and open. Both Northrop Grumman and Boeing praised the USAF for the fairness of the competition before the award was announced. Boeing only complained after they were not selected. In other words, they were for the fairness of the competition before they were against it.

3) Northrop Grumman is an American company and the estimated 48,000 jobs involved in the project are based in the United States.

4) No U.S. jobs are outsourced overseas. Period.

5) No U.S. military technology is exported, either. Period.

If you are as outraged by Boeing's activities as our friends at Citizens Against Government Waste, please click the link below, so that you can send a letter to your elected officials telling them that Northrop Grumman won the deal fair and square.

Go here and tell your Senators and Representative to allow the process to proceed, unhindered by politics. Don't they at least owe our troops that much?

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STOP THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. AIR FORCE!!


Sincerely

Your Friends at America's New Tanker

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Congress: Don't Blow the Tanker Deal for Taxpayers!


Support the Air Force's New Tanker Deal!

Dear [Decision Maker],

Please personalize your message

As your constituent, I'm writing today to let you know that I support the competitive vetting process that the U.S. Air Force followed in awarding the contract for its next generation of aerial refueling tankers. This process is a vast improvement over the originally proposed tanker lease deal with Boeing, which was crafted by members of Congress behind closed doors without any competitive review or debate in order to subsidize Boeing's 767 production line.

The original tanker deal was nothing more than a corporate welfare giveaway to one well-heeled, politically influential company at the expense of American taxpayers. Then-Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas) called it the worst pork-barrel handout he had seen in his 22 years on Capitol Hill.

The proposed deal also proved to be a prime example of cronyism and corruption. An Air Force procurement official received a nine-month prison sentence for negotiating the deal while seeking employment at Boeing; top Boeing officials were forced to resign; and the company had to pay the federal government a fine of more than $600 million.

By contrast, the latest tanker decision was based on an open and transparent bidding process. The Air Force ranked each bid on five criteria and Northrop Grumman won over Boeing on four out of the five and tied in one category. According to published reports, both sides praised the fairness of the competition before the award was announced and agreed that this was the most rigorous acquisition process in the Department of Defense's history.

What's more, contrary to the propaganda put out by some critics, the tanker will be built by American workers and outfitted with sensitive technology right here at home in Mobile, Alabama.

Any attempt by Congress now to overturn or undermine the Air Force's recent decision would smack of the special-interest politics condemned by the public and federal investigators the first time around.

Instead, I urge you and your colleagues to applaud the Air Force for protecting the interests of taxpayers and our troops by finding the best tanker at the best price.

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Thanks for the link. I sent one today.

I am not sure I agree with their reasoning, Boeing is saying the Air Force changed the selection process after they submitted their 767 tanker, if they had known of the changes they would have submitted a 777 tanker instead. I do know a Boeing tanker will provide more US jobs than the Northrop/Airbus tanker.