When the Air Force picked Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS over Boeing to build refueling planes, controversy erupted. Now Boeing is trying to get the Government Accountability Office to overturn the contract.
Steve Inskeep talks to Mark McGraw, vice president of Boeing's tanker programs, about the Air Force's rejection of its tanker proposal.
"The Air Force manipulated the cost data, overly inflating our costs and lowering Northrop's," McGraw says.
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