Boeing Awarded $400M Defense Contract Days After Ex-Exec Shanahan Tapped For Acting Defense Secretar

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/boeing-awarded-dollar400m-defense-contract-days-after-ex-exec-shanahan-tapped-for-acting-defense-secretary

1. SOUNDS FISHY

Boeing Awarded $400M Defense Contract Days After Ex-Exec Shanahan Tapped For Acting Defense Secretary
Bobby Yip/Reuters

The Pentagon announced Friday that Boeing was awarded a $400 million defense contract, just days after the company’s former top executive Patrick Shanahan was tapped by President Trump to be acting Secretary of Defense. Reuters reports that the contract will cover engineering services for the B-1 and B-52 bomber. It remains unclear if Shanahan, the Deputy Defense Secretary who is poised to replace the departing James Mattis, had anything to do with the deal. NPR reports that in the past six months, the Pentagon has awarded Boeing three major contracts.

[liberal N proud]

1. How far will the corruption go?

[marybourg]

2. We'll see. In the normal course of

events, such a suspect contract would be challenged by a losing bidder, in the *absence of collusion among bidders*.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. No big deal-- Boeing is the second largest federal contractor. Besides, you can't even type up...

the proposal for a 400m contract in just a few days.

16 billion in 2015 alone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S._federal_government

[watoos]

4. Who says it's typed up yet?

[Adrahil]

6. And that's the problem with conflicts.

The contract might be legit. But how can we know? With the foxes guarding the henhouse, we can't.

[Zorro]

5. I agree

Most people don't know what the federal contract award process involves. Award decisions typically have substantial supporting backup evaluation recommendations, and any losing contractor can protest the award if they suspect something fishy or unfair in the decision making process.