{"id":549,"date":"2016-02-16T14:46:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=549"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:19:30","slug":"government-accountability-office-auditors-rejected-bomber-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Government Accountability Office auditors have rejected the bomber protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1455654168314_2473\">The Government Accountability Office auditors have rejected the bomber protest filed by\u00a0Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The protest disputed the GAO&#8217;s award of the bomber contract to defense contractor\u00a0Northrop Grumman.\u00a0The\u00a0Office\u00a0stated that it has\u00a0reviewed the original bomber bids, and\u00a0did not see any reason to overturn the contract.\u00a0The contracts value is classified, but is estimated to be worth\u00a0$21.4 billion for\u00a0the first 21 bombers. The new\u00a0long range strike bomber\u00a0is targeted to\u00a0replace the\u00a0aging fleet\u00a0of US\u00a0B-2 and B-52 bombers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-550\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/b-52-300x103.jpg\" alt=\"b-52\" width=\"629\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/b-52-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/b-52-768x263.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/b-52.jpg 847w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government Accountability Office auditors have rejected the bomber protest filed by\u00a0Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The protest disputed the GAO&#8217;s award of the bomber contract to defense contractor\u00a0Northrop Grumman.\u00a0The\u00a0Office\u00a0stated that it has\u00a0reviewed the original bomber bids, and\u00a0did not see any reason to overturn the contract.\u00a0The contracts value is classified, but is estimated to be worth\u00a0$21.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[67,41,69,68,70],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-aviation-news","tag-boeing","tag-bomber","tag-lockheed-martin","tag-protest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}