Sentence examples for tanker program from inspiring English sources

"The customer has not changed its mind one iota about the 767 tanker program".

The tanker program, while large in its own right, was to be the first phase of a multipronged project.

And in November, the Air Force removed two officials from the tanker program after they accidentally sent each bidder sensitive data about the other's proposal.

Pentagon officials plan to phase out those planes, however, and the tanker program will enable Boeing to offset much of the lost revenue.

"The resulting 'cooling off' period will allow the next administration to review objectively the military requirements and craft a new acquisition strategy" for the tanker program.

In addition, the tanker program would have kept open Boeing's 767 production line, now struggling with reduced commercial demand from airlines.

Mark McGraw Vice President, Tanker Programs Boeing Corporation St . Louis March 14 , 2008• To the Editor: Your editorial, which seemed to endorse the outsourcing of the Air Force's $35 billion aerial refueling tanker contract and 44,000 potential American jobs to the French-based aerospace company EADS, did not mention many of the most critical facts.

"I don't think either program will be scrapped," Mr. Stonecipher said of the tanker plan and the Future Combat Systems program.

"The current draft request for proposals is not a tanker modernization program, it is just a replacement program" for the existing fleet of Eisenhower-era U.S. tankers, Mr. O'Keefe told journalists.

Mr. Stonecipher's comments came as yet another in a series of studies that Mr. Rumsfeld had ordered on the tanker lease program was reported yesterday in The Washington Post.

For its part, Boeing continues to issue rosy statements about the tanker lease program's future, most recently in a spate of full-page newspaper ads across the country.