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Friday, September 12, 2003
druyun
Darleen Druyun, enemy combatant
in the war against US taxpayers

Darleen's $5.7 billion surprise. Darleen Druyun, an Air Force acquisitions officer, apparently notified Boeing that a competitor had underbid them by several billion dollars.

She's no longer with the Air Force. Guess where she works now...
[Forbes/Reuters:] Boeing Co. rejected published reports on Friday that it might have obtained rival bidder Airbus SAS's proprietary information en route to a proposed $22.5 billion refueling tanker lease-purchase agreement with the U.S. Air Force.

Darleen Druyun, hired by Boeing after leaving her job as a top Air Force acquisition official last year, told the Chicago-based company "several times" that Airbus's price was $5 million to $17 million less than Boeing's, an internal Boeing e-mail published on Friday said.

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The lease of 100 tankers based on the Boeing 767 would cost as much as $5.7 billion more than an outright purchase, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office said in an Aug. 26 report.
This is the issue recently alluded to by Paul Krugman as evidence of the American press missing or barely covering important stories (via Arms and the Man).

⇒ This post was updated on November 24, 2003.
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