Mississippi Business Journal » tanker http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 National guard tankers returning to Key Field http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/10/national-guard-tankers-returning-to-key-field/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=national-guard-tankers-returning-to-key-field http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/10/national-guard-tankers-returning-to-key-field/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 12:16:53 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74522 MERIDIAN — The Air National Guard at Key Field is receiving two KC-135 tankers in July. The arrival of the tankers means the Guard unit is going back to an air refueling mission. The KC-135′s left Key Field in March of 2011. The base received C-27 planes as it changed to an airlift mission. Col. [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/10/national-guard-tankers-returning-to-key-field/feed/ 0 Gates regrets Northrop Grumman’s pull-out http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/11/gates-regrets-northrop-grummans-pull-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gates-regrets-northrop-grummans-pull-out http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/11/gates-regrets-northrop-grummans-pull-out/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:15:50 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=20487 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he regrets that a major defense contractor has pulled out of the contest to build a badly needed new Air Force plane. And he warns that the lone surviving bidder shouldn’t expect to be able to pad the check. Gates told a military audience today that he wishes Northrop [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/11/gates-regrets-northrop-grummans-pull-out/feed/ 0 Leaders bemoan loss of tanker contract http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/09/leaders-bemoan-loss-of-tanker-contract/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=leaders-bemoan-loss-of-tanker-contract http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/09/leaders-bemoan-loss-of-tanker-contract/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:31:30 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=20373 GULF COAST — Mississippi officials expressed both disappointment and disgust with a Pentagon process that prompted Northrop Grumman Corp. to drop out of the competition for an Air Force refueling tanker contract. The Northrop proposal had set off a celebration along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the Mobile, Ala., area, where some 2,000 jobs would [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/09/leaders-bemoan-loss-of-tanker-contract/feed/ 2 Boeing to bid on Air Force tanker http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/05/boeing-to-bid-on-air-force-tanker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boeing-to-bid-on-air-force-tanker http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/03/05/boeing-to-bid-on-air-force-tanker/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:57:06 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=20147 Defense contractor Boeing said yesterday that it would bid for the Air Force’s troubled $35-billion refueling plane contract, leaving rival Northrop Grumman to decide if it would make its own attempt to build the long-delayed jets. Boeing said it plans to offer a military version of its 767 passenger jet for a fleet of 179 [...]

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