TU: Air Force sets aside contract that would have brought aircraft assembly to Jacksonville

We will need to watch this situation closely since Embraer was a company that was given money to bring jobs into the area where they are as it is one of those special classifications downtown.  Now I wonder if we have already given them the money or if it is held until such time as the contract is in place.  Either way, there is taxpayer money in the pipeline for these folks, and we need to watch.  The city council bill number was 2011-0020 and the link to the bill is:  http://cityclts.coj.net/coj/COJBillList.asp?Bill=2011-0020

 

A bid to buld the A-29 Super Tucano in Kansas is suddenly back in play.

By David Bauerlein

Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown keeps a replica of the A-29 Super Tucano plane on a shelf in his City Hall office.

That model might remain the only version of the warplane in Jacksonville.

On Tuesday, the Air Force reversed its decision on a $355 million contract that would have led to jobs for 50 people assembling the Super Tucano at Jacksonville International Airport.

The Air Force revoked the December award to Sierra Nevada Corp. of Sparks, Nev., and its Brazilian subcontractor, Embraer.

The Air Force said it will reconsider rival Hawker Beechcraft, a Kansas company that filed suit contending it was wrongly excluded last year from vying for the contract.

The turnabout left Jacksonville officials surprised and disappointed. It also evoked memories of previous Department of Defense contracts for plane-building in Jacksonville that didn’t pan out.


Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-02-28/story/air-force-sets-...

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