{"id":16630,"date":"2012-03-05T02:46:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T05:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16630"},"modified":"2012-03-05T02:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T05:46:50","slug":"air-force-cancels-light-attack-aircraft-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/air-force-cancels-light-attack-aircraft-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Cancels Light Attack Aircraft Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much ballyhooed attempt by the US Air Force to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/17\/usaf-to-provide-light-attack-aircraft-to-afghanistan\/\">provide Afghanistan with a light attack aircraft<\/a> recently hit another roadblock.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to December, there were two contractors vying for the award &#8212; Hawker Beechcraft&#8217;s AT-6 and Embraer&#8217;s Super Tucano. In December, the Air Force removed Hawker from the competition and awarded the contract to the sole remaining bidder.<\/p>\n<p>Hawker protested, and <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/battle-brewing-over-air-force-light-attack-aircraft\/\">then sued<\/a>.\u00a0 The Air Force <!--more-->has now cancelled the contract, which the media have called an &#8220;embarrassment&#8221; and about which General Norton Schwartz, Air Force Chief of Staff, said &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/defense.aol.com\/2012\/03\/01\/hawker-beechcraft-at-6-texan-ii-guns-for-super-tucano-as-air-for\/?\">our institutional reputation is at stake<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Part of the &#8220;reputation&#8221; issue is the Air Force&#8217;s muddled history of acquisitions contracts, from the on-again, off-again new aerial refueling tanker to the 20-year spin up of the F-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much ballyhooed attempt by the US Air Force to provide Afghanistan with a light attack aircraft recently hit another roadblock. Prior to December, there were two contractors vying for the award &#8212; Hawker Beechcraft&#8217;s AT-6 and Embraer&#8217;s Super Tucano. In December, the Air Force removed Hawker from the competition and awarded the contract to the sole remaining bidder. Hawker [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,13,498,2768,5285,2766,2,497,2765],"class_list":["post-16630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-at-6","tag-embraer","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-hawker-beechcraft","tag-military","tag-norton-schwartz","tag-super-tucano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}