EADS won't protest tanker loss

Europe's EADS said today that it won't file a protest with the Government Accountability Office over last week's decision by the Air Force to award the $35 billion aerial tanker project to rival Boeing. The move is likely to dismay EADS supports in the Gulf Coast region, where EADS planned to assemble the aircraft. The company had planned to build a $600 million aircraft assembly plant in Mobile, Ala. (Sources: Multiple, including New York Times, Bloomberg Business Week, 03/04/11)