Analysis: Will EADS protest Air Force tanker contract award?

Defense contractor EADS is thinking about its options, following the Air Force\'s choice to give Boeing that $35 billion tanker contract.

Defense contractor EADS is thinking about its options, following the Air Force’s choice to give Boeing that $35 billion tanker contract.

EADS met with the Air Force yesterday about the decision. The company has ten days to protest the award.

Retired Air Force Lieutenant General Mike Dunn is president of the Air Force Association. He discusses the award – and whether it’ll stick.

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