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Monday, May 17, 2010

Boeing Source: We May Not Bid For KC-X

KC-767 Tanker AircraftBoeing is considering not bidding for the U.S. Air Force's KC-X tanker contract, a company source said May 14.

That would leave Europe's EADS - which earlier this year had threatened its own pullout - as the sole bidder for the multibillion-dollar prize.

CEO Jim McNerney and other executives are privately debating whether their company can even win, much less make a profit, on the fixed-price contract, one senior Boeing executive said.

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