The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Nov. 17 overturned an earlier ruling by a lower court and restored a $1 billion KC-135 maintenance contract to Boeing that had been disputed by Alabama Aircraft Industries. The appeals court said the lower claims court erred when it called USAF’s “price-realism analysis” during the contract award process “arbitrary and capricious.” AAI protested the award to the Government Accountability Office, which eventually upheld the Air Force decision to award the contract to Boeing. AAI then filed a lawsuit in federal claims court and won that round last fall. (Also see Reuters report; Birmingham News report) (Appeals court ruling)
DNI: Cyber Is The Common Weapon Among Top Adversaries
April 17, 2021
The top four U.S. adversaries--China, Russia, Iran and North Korea--are improving their military capabilities but relying increasingly on cyber means to challenge the U.S. and blunt its influence around the world, the intelligence community's annual threat assessment says. The report comes amid military tensions with both China and Russia.