

Mauricio escribió: ¿Qué tal si hacemos memoria de cierto programa que se hacía llamar FACA, que empezaron con 144 y acabaron con 72 + unos de ñapa, usados? .
ASCUA escribió:¿Dejame que piense en algún programa de aviación de caza con un desarrollo rapido y sin grandes contratiempos y a buen precio?
Me sale el Rhino y pare Vd de contar...
Mauricio escribió:Entonces no es que los Useños son unos buenos para nada, sino que es la naturaleza de las adquisiciones militares. Que estas se demoren porque un ente contralor quiere más transparencia es algo bueno, no algo malo.
sino que es la naturaleza de las adquisiciones militares
KF86 escribió:Mauricio, la verdad es que era dificil pensar que un proyecto de u$s 47.000 millones quede en manos de una empresa extranjera y no de una estadounidense.
Mauricio escribió:Vamos a ver, que quede claro que donde pueda operar un Triple 7 ó un A330, también puede hacerlo un A380. A eso me refería con mi respuesta anterior.
No Tayun. Un 380 en versión de pasajeros requiere de 9000 piés para despegar. En versión 800F, que lógicamente serviría de base para una versión MRTT, esta cifra sube a 9500 piés. En cambio un 330 MRTT puede despegar en 6100 piés con 202.000 libras de combustible a bordo.
Luego está el asunto del ancho de la pista y de los taxiways. El A-380 (y 330 también) se encuentran en Group V de la FAA, lo que los obliga a usar pistas de 45 m de ancho y taxiways de 23. El 767 es Group IV. Es decir, de un modo u otro, así sea por el largo o ancho de las pistas necesarias, el 380 no puede operar desde las mismas bases que los otros dos. Me imagino que si fuese de verdad necesario se hace caber al 330 en la misma pista que al 767. Al 380 ya se le hace bastante más complicado.
Tanker Wars: Advantage Northrop Grumman?
The Pentagon has released its "draft" of requirements to Boeing and Northrop Grumman in what it wants in a new air refueling tanker, and, at first blush, advantage Northrop.
Defense officials now say they will give extra credit if a tanker can offload more fuel than its "threshold" requirement, and the Northrop/Airbus tanker can do just that. Procurement director Shay Assad says this was what the Air Force actually planned do all along--give extra credit--but the GAO pointed out the Air Force never made that clear. Now it's perfectly clear.
This is what Boeing was afraid of, that rather than re-opening the bidding with a real shot at winning the tanker, the Defense Department would just be more clear about why it wanted the Northrop/Airbus tanker.
But there's also good news for Boeing. The Pentagon says that it's listened to "warfighters" who say that the lifecycle of these planes is 40 years, not 25. So the new draft proposal will measure the cost of the planes over 40 years, which could favor Boeing's less expensive, smaller tanker.
Boeing Pulling Out Of Tanker Wars--Or Stalling For Time?
Posted By:Jane Wells
Companies:Boeing Co | Northrop Grumman Corp
As I blogged earlier, Aviation Week is reporting that Boeing [BA 66.62 - 1.24 (-1.83%)] is "strongly considering" dropping out of the tanker competition. A Boeing official wouldn't comment one way or the other on the story.
I asked veteran defense analyst Cai von Rumohr of Cowen and Company if he thinks the story could be true. Von Rumohr says he thinks the chances are "pretty good" that Boeing is truly considering the threat, because the new Pentagon request from bidders contains two things--a tanker ready next year, and a larger aircraft--which are both "bad for Boeing."
If Boeing did, in fact, drop out, would Congress allow the Pentagon to move forward with only one bidder? "They would be very upset," von Rumohr says of defense officials. "Whether the Air Force decides to call Boeing's bluff we'll see."
Bluff? Von Rumohr says, "I think Boeing's strategy is probably likely to be to try to push this decision into the new year and a new administration...you know, if they think that they're for sure going to lose, why not go through with a bluff because it might work."
Why push into a new administration? Clearly a President Obama would favor organized labor and a Boeing tanker. It's possible a President McCain wouldn't want to be seen as dumping on Boeing a second time (McCain is a major reason the original deal to lease tankers from Boeing never happened). Also, the longer this thing drags out, perhaps the greater the chances Boeing could put together a proposal for a tanker based on its larger 777, even though the company has said it has no plans to change planes. But the 777 would be a larger, more "apples to apples" comparison to the proposed Northrop Grumman [NOC 69.96 0.25 (+0.36%) ] tanker.
On that note, Northrop Grumman tells me it is also meeting with Pentagon officials tomorrow. Spokesman Randy Belote adds that the new request from the Pentagon, "clarifies BUT DOES NOT ALTER the original tanker requirements or alter the tanker specifications. This is key and rebuffs Boeing's supporters calling for a delay in the program.
During the initial competition, each competitor was free to bid whatever tanker it felt would best meet the Air Force's requirements. And we are free to do that again, of course, within the scope of this amended acquisition process." True, but changing horses, or airplanes, at this late date would be extremely difficult for Boeing, given the Pentagon's timeline.
Bottom line, when I asked von Rumohr what he thinks will happen with the tanker deal, he shook his head and laughed, saying "I have no idea."
tayun escribió: La USAF necesita estar un paso por delante de todos, preferiblemente dos, y si la industria norteamericana no entiende eso, entonces lo diga el GAO, o lo diga el Papa, buscarán lo que necesitan en cualquier mercado exterior. Por lo tanto, aún queda una esperanza para que Europa se lleve ese contrato.
August 6: Release Draft Amended RFP Accomplished
August 12: Face-to-Face with Offerers Accomplished
[August 15: Additional, unscheduled face-to-face Accomplished]
August 15: Final Amended RFP released Missed Deadline
[Week/August 18: observers project FRFP release this week; no DOD information]
October 1: Proposal Receipt
Oct. 1-Nov. 30: Evaluation Period
Oct. 15-Nov. 30: Discussion with Offerers
December 1: Discussions Complete
December 5: Final proposal revisions due
Dec. 8-22: Source Selection Advisory Committee Deliberations
December 31: Contract Award
Jan. 2-3: Offerer Debriefs
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