The Washington Post’s Josh White reports on a fishy $50 million contract given to Strategic Message Solutions. The company had “barely existed” in 2005, but the contract was given that year “to reward a recently retired four-star general and a millionaire civilian pilot who had grown close to the Air Force.”

Strategic Message Solutions’ bid to help add color to Air Force air shows was twice as high as its next closest competitor. This is not the first time camaraderie has trumped fair contracting at the Air Force. A contracting officer went to jail a year ago for doing favors to mega-contractor Boeing.  Read White here.  MB

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