Four years ago, Boeing was the corporate villain, the powerful Chicago-based company cheated to win a lucrative contract to build tankers for the Air Force. An outraged Congress killed the deal and forced the Air Force to rebid the contract. Boeing was fined $615 million, CEO Phil Condit resigned and a Boeing executive and an Air Force procurement officer went to prison. ...more

July 4, 2008

An audit agency's recommendation that the Air Force reopen bidding on a contract to build a new generation of aerial refueling planes almost certainly means the Air Force will fail to put the planes into service starting in 2013, as planned, the service's departing civilian chief said Friday. ...more

June 21, 2008

Congressional auditors are recommending that a controversial Air Force decision to award a $35 billion military aircraft program to the rival of Chicago-based Boeing Co. be reconsidered. ...more

June 19, 2008

The United States has five-star rankings for restaurants and hotels. So why not five-star rankings for nursing homes? ...more

June 19, 2008

WASHINGTON - Congressional auditors are recommending that a controversial Air Force decision to award a $35 billion military aircraft program to the rival of Chicago-based Boeing Co. be reconsidered. ...more

June 18, 2008

Northrop Grumman Corp. and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. beat out Boeing Co. to win a $35 billion order from the Air Force three months ago. ...more

June 10, 2008

A Department of Homeland Security program to strengthen port security has gaps that terrorists could exploit to smuggle weapons of mass destruction in cargo containers, congressional investigators have found. ...more

May 27, 2008

Quit complaining. That's the message from the Pentagon and Congress to defense companies that cry foul when they don't win contracts. ...more

May 25, 2008

An influential Tampa Bay area member of Congress has asked the Air Force to consider splitting in two its controversial $35 billion contract for new refueling tankers. ...more

May 10, 2008

The government says it can trim a month or more off the hiring process for air-traffic controllers. ...more

February 16, 2008