northrup grumman decided against bidding butding. john reed, defense air and space reporter. it looked like boeing was going to win this in a wake walk. what are boeing's concerns and is it serious not bidding for this contract? >> i think boeing is serious about weighing all of its options and doing a cost benefit analysis. they're considering what it would cost to bid and lose and then be undercut by eads. >> and that's happened on commercial markets where eads competed the a-330 which is larger on the 767 and won on price. are they concerned about the fixed price long term nature of the contract? >> both parties are concerned about that but i think they can move beyond that. at this point it is boeing really concerned about are they going to be able to compete on price? >> and to be able to win it. what is the pentagon been saying? the last time around the pentagon's attitude said, hey, northrup grumman, eads, if you don't want to bid, that's okay, we're okay with boeing. what is the pentagon saying now. >> so far the pentagon is