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Shay Assad, director of defense procurement and acquisitions policy, announces that the department has reopened bidding on the contract to build the U.S. Air Force's next-generation aerial tanker at a Pentagon briefing, Aug. 6, 2008.

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Shay Assad, director of defense procurement and acquisitions policy, announces that the department has reopened bidding on the contract to build the U.S. Air Force's next-generation aerial tanker at a Pentagon briefing, Aug. 6, 2008.

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