09.10.2008 9:02 pm
Thursday editorial: Politics and procurement
In a welcome, if belated, decision, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday halted the Pentagon’s star-crossed, corruption-tinged seven-year effort to replace its Elvis-era fleet of aerial refueling tankers.
The next president and his secretary of defense now will have the…
Congress’ watchdog agency Wednesday took a bite out of the Air Force, ruling that the service botched its February decision to award a $40 billion aerial tanker deal to
