Purchasing scandal yields hard lesson for Air Force
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At a special Pentagon ceremony in late 1996, then-Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall honored a top aide, Darleen Druyun, who was responsible for shepherding multibillion dollar
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The former U.S. Air Force arms buyer at the center of the biggest Pentagon contracting scandal since the 1980s began a nine-month sentence at a women's prison in Florida this week, prison officials said Tuesday.
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld blamed an Air Force procurement scandal on high turnover in top management positions, which he said reduced the amount of "adult supervision" of major weapons contracts over the past decade.
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Boeing Co. BA.N faces three events  next week that could make or break its hopes of quickly  restoring its ethics-tarnished image at the Pentagon, its  largest client.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Thursday faulted the Air Force again for its handling of a contract with Boeing Co , upholding in part a Pemco Aviation Group Inc  protest.
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A former top Air Force acquisition executive today was sentenced to nine months in prison for conspiring to help Boeing Co. win a multibillion-dollar Pentagon contract.
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The former No. 2 weapons buyer for the Air Force was sentenced Friday to nine months in prison for negotiating a $250,000 job with Boeing while still overseeing the company's business with the military.
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The U.S. Government Accountability  Office on Thursday faulted the Air Force again for its handling  of a contract with Boeing Co , upholding in part a Pemco  Aviation Group Inc  protest.
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Four Air Force colonels have been relieved of their commands and more than 65 lower-ranking officers and airmen have been disciplined over a series of errors that led to a B-52 flight in August from North Dakota to Louisiana with six nuclear-armed cruise missiles that no one realized were under the...
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A confession by the former No. 2 Air Force arms buyer that she steered contracts to her future employer, Boeing Co. , could spur legal challenges to old contract awards, legal experts said on Monday.
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Leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee asked the Defense Department on Friday to have its inspector general&#39;s office investigate the Air Force&#39;s effort to
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The inquiry is part of a broader probe into influence-peddling involving a former Air Force official and the Boeing Company.
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The Pentagon is investigating eight additional Air Force contracts to determine whether they were manipulated or influenced illegally by Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force official who was convicted last year of giving Boeing Co. special treatment on a tanker lease deal.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. and BAE Systems North America Inc. filed protests with the Air Force Tuesday over a $4 billion contract to upgrade electronics on C-130 military transport planes awarded to Boeing Co. in 2001.
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The former No. 2 weapons buyer for the US Air Force, Darleen Druyun, was sentenced on Friday to nine months in prison for negotiating a $250,000 job with Boeing Co.
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A slump in demand for civilian aircraft has triggered a sharp slide in orders for big-ticket US-made products.
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New orders for long-lasting U.S.-made goods were held back by a sharp plunge in demand for new aircraft, the Commerce Department said.