Italy to be punished for sole source aircraft contracts

October 17, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Agusta Westland, Contract Awards, Italy, Military Aviation, commercial aviation, production program 

Earlier this year the European Union had judged that Italy violated contract laws by awarding helicopter contracts only to state owned Agusta. Now that Italy has failed to take any mitigating steps they are moving to punish the country. Italy had claimed national security reasons for only considering Agusta to provide the aircraft. This is part of an effort by the EU leadership to allow competition across at least the countries of the EU.

For more see Rueters.com.

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Italian KC-767 tanker slips

September 9, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, Italy, Military Aviation, U.S. Air Force, logistics, production program 

Boeing will face financial penalties from Italy as delivery of their KC-767 tankers have slipped 36 months. Originally planned for a 2005 delivery the first won’t be ready until late 2008. Issues with the pod holding the drogue refueling system and also meeting some of the Italian specific requirements that are set higher then the FAA’s have caused the delays. This will not help with the Boeing bid on the USAF new tanker.

See Bloomberg.com for more.

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Force Protection wins foreign orders

February 22, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Contract Awards, England, Force Protection, Italy, production program 

Force Protection won two contracts worth about $120 M to build vehicles for Britain and Italy. See an article here about this. Force Protection had been struggling a little lately due to some US cancellations or contracts going to other companies, but these contracts should help.

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