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The Air Force has notified Hawker Beechcraft Corp. that it has been excluded from competition to build a light attack aircraft, a contract worth nearly $1 billion, the company reports.
This doesn't appear to be a question of being outbid or outclassed. In fact, this seems to be a classic example of a contract being awarded without any bidding process at all, something you may remember infuriated the left when the recipient of the contract was the American company Haliburton.
There's a big difference this time. The company the no-bid contract went to isn't an American company. Worse yet, the company it did go to has questionable friends. Namely, Iran.
The company is Embraer from Brazil. Soros has investments in the company. And it has questionable ties.
Late Thursday night, American company Hawker Beechcraft was informed by the U.S. Air Force that they were not going to be allowed to compete for an American military aircraft contract.
The Air Force has notified Hawker Beechcraft Corp. that its Beechcraft AT-6 has been excluded from competition to build a light attack aircraft, a contract worth nearly $1 billion, the company said.
The company had been working with the Air Force for two years and spent over $100 million to ensure compliance with the requirements for the plane and says the craft (Beechcraft AT-6) met all requirements as shown through a demonstration actually led by the Air National Guard.
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Embraer, a Brazilian aerospace giant which is currently under investigation for potentially making illegal payments to obtain government contracts, is essentially owned by the Brazilian government.
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According to the Financial Times, building war planes is actually part of an industry that Embraer is fairly new to as they are only just “venturing into the defence industry.” Yet, the U.S. government has found them to be more capable and trustworthy than an American manufacturer that already builds hundreds of U.S. military aircrafts and would employ as many as 1,400 new workers across 20 states.
More evidence of the Obama Administration's lack of interest in helping Americans.
The naked scanners was also a no bid and they get continuing contracts and just won over a 6 year contract with Mexico.
Pays to have friends in high places. Also pays to pay attention and "never let a good crisis go to waste". They trade on the NYSE in ADRs..symbol is ERJ but have no clue as to the stability of the company because the government has retained "golden shares" which means the government has veto powers.
More worrisome is that these are light duty planes and in other countries used for border patrol, drug interdiction and local military actions within their country.
35 now and up to 55 later. That would be one for each state and a few extra.
I wonder if DHS will get to use them ?
Did you miss the fact that this contract was awarded to a US company, Sierra Nevada Corporation? Embraer has been making light ground-attack aircraft for some time.
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