Posted on 12/01/2010 9:05:35 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
After an Air Force mix-up sent Boeing and EADS computer disks with crucial data on each other's bid for the air-refueling tanker contract, Boeing initially was left at a disadvantage, contrary to previous reports.
The Air Force then had to scramble to level the playing field in the $40 billion competition.
When Boeing tanker-team officials got the errant disk last month, they recognized from the labeling that the disk was intended for EADS, and did not open it.
But their EADS counterparts did open the disk they received and looked at a spreadsheet of data on the mission performance of the Boeing 767 tanker, Air Force Col. Les Kodlick confirmed Tuesday.
Only afterward did the EADS reviewers realize the error. They then contacted the Air Force and returned the disk.
"EADS opened Boeing's spreadsheet. Boeing did not look at the EADS spreadsheet," said Kodlick.
To ensure that neither side could claim bias, he said, the Air Force then sent the corresponding spreadsheet data on EADS' Airbus A330 tanker to Boeing and gave EADS back the spreadsheet on the Boeing tanker
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Sheer USAF incompetence.
LOL
Then EADS forfeits because they chose to have inside info (they did not HAVE to read the disc), n'est ce pas?
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Where did you get that? This is on the US Air Force.
incompetence or worse ?
Oh there was a bit of opportunism involved.
Ping
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