Aerospace

Confirmed: Work on the Pentagon’s Top-Secret Stealth Bomber Will Continue

On February 16, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced that it had denied a protest filed by U.S. defense contractor Boeing, which challenged the Air Force’s decision to award Northrop Grumman a contract for designing, building, and early production of the so-called Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B).

Northrup Grumman emerged as the primary contractor for the new aircraft in October 2015, beating out a Boeing-Lockheed Martin partnership. The bid losers immediately challenged the U.S. Air Force’s decision (See:“Pentagon Awards Contract For US Air Force’s New Top-Secret Bomber”).

“GAO reviewed the challenges to the selection decision raised by Boeing and has found no basis to sustain or uphold the protest,” noted Ralph White, the GAO’s managing associate general counsel for procurement law.