The Air Force has started testing and evaluating two early warning aircraft systems vying for South Korea's $2-billion weapons project, a final step before choosing the successful bidder in June.
The two bidders _ Boeing of the United States and IAI Elta of Israel _ submitted all required documents for the test and evaluation session as of April 30, Park Sung-soo, a spokesman of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA), told The Korea Times.
The agency will announce the winner on June 14 or June 21, he said.
U.S. aircraft giant Boeing and Elta, a subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries, have been in fierce competition over the ``E-X'' project to equip the South Korean Air Force with state-of-the-art surveillance airplanes by 2012.
The final selection, originally planned for last December, has been delayed as Elta failed to submit data of key technologies for its product due to an export ban by the U.S. government because the equipment was developed with technological cooperation of the United States.
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