This AF team did a huge amount of homework this time and any legal argument or challenge....is going to find a mountain of effort to prove their points. The Boeing folks will find some military professionals are better than any they ever messed with before. My guess is that legally...this deal can’t be tossed. Only congress can stop or screw the deal up.
As they should
Actually, Boeing is charging that the AF team did a huge amount of homework in order to keep the Northrop/Airbus team in the running, and then got so proud of their homework that they forgot to play by the rules. I can see that happening. One need not charge the selection team with malice aforethought -- a loss of focus on the objective selection criteria would explain it.
All we've seen is the press releases, of course. but the GAO saw enough to at least say "wait a minute...."