US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday the Pentagon will request revised bids from industry for a 35 billion dollar contract to supply the air force with air refueling aircraft.
Gates said he believed the new contract could be awarded by December and emphasized that reopening the competition would not "represent a return to the first step of a process that already has gone on far too long."
But he said the Pentagon will address criticism of a contract awarded in February to Northrop Grumman and "we will request revised proposals from industry."
