Q. Boeing is up for a $17 billion contract with the Air Force, which had all but signed the deal before the procurement scandal broke out.

But the business faces big fines for its involvement in a military procurement scandal, a potential liability that could be offputting to buyers.

Another continuing investigation involves Boeing's central role in the Pentagon's biggest weapons procurement scandal since the 1980's.

The recent procurement scandal is just the latest example of why the current system does not work.

Thus, the disclosure requirement could bring to light the identification of more companies than are currently known to be implicated in the procurement scandal.

Sly it was also, as a warrior's way of bemoaning the Pentagon's procurement scandal.

The reader is left with no illusions that the next procurement scandal will be prevented.

So far lawmakers have refrained from overt partisan finger-pointing in the unfolding procurement scandal.

In addition, a $20 billion aerial refueling tanker program collapsed in a procurement scandal and its future is uncertain.

Now, in the wake of widely publicized procurement scandals and Congressional pressure for a tighter rein on contractors, that assurance is gone.