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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Boeing seeks chance to bid on CF-18 replacement

CF-18 HornetA U.S. aerospace firm is trying to convince the Harper government it makes financial sense to hold a competition for the proposed multibillion-dollar purchase of new fighter jets for Canada's military, rather than enter into a sole-source deal with one of its competitors.

Work is underway in the Department of National Defence to seek approval for a sole-source purchase of the Joint Strike Fighter, or JSF, built by Lockheed Martin in the United States.

Some DND officials are concerned that a competition would drag on for too long and because of that Canada would not have new fighter aircraft in place when the current fleet of CF-18s is ready to be retired starting in 2017.

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