According to Hawker Beechcraft Corporation Chairman Bill Boisture, the Air Force has decided to restore the company’s failed bid to win the potentially lucrative contract to build 20 light air support (LAS) aircraft for delivery to Afghanistan with potential follow-on business worth up to a billion dollars.
The Air Force had previously announced that Sierra Nevada Corp. had won the competition with its entry, an Embraer Super Tucano. But HBC protested the award and claimed it had not had enough time to respond to the award and that it had not received sufficient notice of the award to Sierra Nevada in order to appeal that decision. (To read more about the controversy, see our prior story on the subject.)
