Sounds like MeAmerican forgot his password and is now For America—it should be
For Boeing/Mexico/China/India/Italy

We know how Boeing does business—I can give you more examples than what I posted already.

“Former” is the key word in the sentence.

There is a long list of former Boeing executives that have resigned or were fired over the years.  I don’t see how you Boeing people are going to make much of an argument for your cause based on that guy’s activities.

Ex-Boeing CFO Pleads Guilty, Fine and Prison Term Likely
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—When they met in a private conference room at the Orlando Airport in October 2002, one of the first things Darleen Druyun told Michael Sears was that she probably should not be discussing employment at Boeing with him.

She was right—and now Sears may go to jail for it.

At the time, Druyun was the U.S. Air Force’s principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and was in the midst of negotiating a $29.8 billion deal for the Air Force to lease 100 refueling tankers from Boeing. Sears was the chief financial officer of the Chicago-based firm.

Despite Druyun’s misgivings, Sears offered Druyun a job. The pair spent most of the next half hour talking about Druyun’s future as a vice president and general manager of Boeing Missile Defense Systems. She would get a $250,000 annual salary and a $50,000 signing bonus, and would start the following January.

Sears also had misgivings. When he reported his activity to other top executives at Boeing the next day by e-mail, he was careful to refer to the session with Druyun as “a non-meeting.”

Is this who we want making planes for the USAF??
Former Airbus chief executive Gustav Humbert has been placed in police custody for questioning in a widening probe into allegations of insider trading at European aerospace group EADS, a police source said on Monday

For America , come up with some more facts for you,

Built upon a very complex inner structure, the ‘boom’ system operates by using ‘fly-by-wire’ controls, which are used on almost every Airbus aircraft. The ‘fly-by-wire’ system allows the pilot to control the airplane’s surfaces through a computer, making it very safe and precise to maneuver an airplane. By applying this concept to an in-flight refueling system we are creating a very precise device, capable of refueling the smallest fighter during the biggest, fiercest storm, even at night, since the ‘boom’ system has been conceived to operate both by day and by night.

When it´s in use, the ‘boom’ system is capable of transferring over 2.200 liters per minute. This enables very fast in-flight refueling procedures, all the better, the less time it takes to refuel a heavily armed jet fighter at 30.000 thousand feet the better. If anything should occur during this procedure, ‘boom’ would automatically interrupt it and retract the refueling ‘hose’ by it’s own.

here’s more For American,They have also decided to use a different boom (Gen 6), wing and centre systems than the Italy and Japan 767 aircraft. So all the flight testing to date for the 767 tanker is basically useless for the USAF contract.

The speed that matters is what is in the RFP and the Airbus plane does not meet it!  Boeing’s plane meets all requirements.

america,The KC-30 and KC-10 have similar operating speeds, the KC-767 is about M0.02 slower.Boeing have almost overcome the problems they have had on the KC-767, but in the wisdom with the Frankenstein aircraft they have proposed for the KC-767Adv with bits and pieces of different 767 models combined together in an unproven and risky combination. The KC-767Adv does not have the same wing as the Japanese or Italian KC-767s, so all the flutter testing will have to be done all over again. This was one of the main contributors to the current 2+ year delay on the KC-767.

A330 is limited by flight-control software to a maximum speed of 330kt (610km/h), which falls short of the minimum speed that the USAF requires to conduct a so-called “overrun” manoeuvre.

Northrop first responded to this shortfall by advising the USAF to change its manoeuvre speed, but lost the argument, the GAO reports. The USAF then accepted Northrop’s claim that the A330 already safely achieves higher speeds in dives. The GAO noted that a commercial aircraft’s maximum operating speed applies to any regime of flight, but the USAF evaluator was unaware of this.