EADS still wants to bid on tanker?

Northrop Grumman said Tuesday it's getting closer to a decision on whether to bid on a multibillion-dollar aerial tanker contract. But a European source told Reuters that partner EADS wants to bid. The Northrop Grumman/EADS team won the contract in February 2008, but it was overturned following a Boeing protest. Northrop said in December that the new contest's rules favor Boeing's smaller plane, and it threatened not to bid. A European source said EADS remains interested in gaining a bigger foothold in the United States. (Source: Reuters, 03/02/10) Gulf Coast note: Northrop Grumman and EADS want to assemble the tanker in Mobile, Ala.