EADS has partners for US bid: CEO: "EADS, the European aerospace giant, has found the US partners it needs for its bid for a major US Air Force tanker contract, chief executive Louis Gallois said Wednesday.
'We have the complete team of partners we needed for sensitive equipment but we don't give the names because we don't want to put them under pressure,' he told reporters in London.
EADS had previously held talks with US companies Raytheon and L-3 and the US arm of British firm BAE Systems.
Gallois remained confident that EADS had a bid that could beat US rivals Boeing to the 35-billion-dollar (29-billion-euro) deal to supply the US Air Force with 179 aerial refuelling tankers.
He insisted EADS' design -- a militarised version of the A330 aircraft made by Airbus -- was the 'best airplane'."
