Northrop Grumman and EADS have decided not to offer a joint bid for the $35 billion, 179-aircraft KC-X tanker contract, citing a US Air Force request for proposal they believe is weighted in ...

The announcement by EADS NA Chairman Ralph Crosby on 20 February at the National Press Club comes six weeks after Northrop Grumman withdrew as prime contractor for the KC-45 over charges that the ...

As part of the cancellation of the KC-X contract originally awarded to Northrop Grumman and EADS last years EADS received a payment for the first aircraft they started to modify. Final termination ...

Some have labeled the KC-45 project a “French” tanker because one of Northrop Grumman’s partners on it is the North American subsidiary of EADS, parent of Airbus.

The Northrop Grumman Corp./EADS team plans to hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for its refueling tanker assembly plant in Mobile on June 28 -- even though the $40 billion contract is being ...

View full size(AP Photo/Azamat Imanaliev)A lineup of U.S. air force KC-135 tanker planes seen at the Manas air base in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on Feb. 18, 2009. Northrop Grumman said it will review a ...

The Northrop Grumman/EADS North America team is planning not to compete with an A330-based tanker in the Air Force's $200-billion KC-X aerial refueler competition, according to industry officials.

When Northrop Grumman (NOC) announced in March that it would not bid for the new aerial tanker for the U.S. Air Froce, the KC-X, Boeing (BA) and its many supporters in Congress believed it was ...

European planemaker EADS <EAD.PA> and U.S. defence contractor Northrop Grumman Corp <NOC.N> said on Tuesday they remained committed to Airbus's A330 as the basis for a U.S. Air Force tanker.

The Air Force plans to tell Northrop Grumman and EADS to stop referring to their KC-30 tanker as the KC-45, Air Force Magazine reports. But Northrop isn’t budging.

This article first appeared at Aviation Week.com.The first Northrop Grumman/EADS North America A330 for the U.S. Air Force has been sent to Germany in preparation for a cargo modification, though ...

Northrop Grumman Corp. of Century City and partner European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. formally entered a competition to supply new refueling tankers to the Air Force. Northrop Grumman, EADS ...