The US Government Accountability Office ruling that categorically rejects the US Air Force's two-year process to award the KC-X tanker contract sets up a repeat scenario with a changed political backdrop and vastly different views about the product positions of the two competing teams. The GAO's findings are not binding, but the full weight of the investigative agency's seven-point rebuttal (see box) is expected to compel USAF officials to start over again.
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