Despite a very disappointing decision last week concerning the KC-10 Contractor Logistics Support contract, our Boeing team should be very proud of how they've supported the men and women of America's Air Force.

In the decade that we've been on contract, our more than 200-member team based in San Antonio has provided depot-level maintenance for the Air Force KC-10 fleet more than 750 times. Over 70 additional Boeing employees around the world support the KC-10 aircraft fleet 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Our performance has been exemplary:

• The Boeing team never missed a delivery. We had a 100-percent on-time delivery rate returning those valuable KC-10s back to their Air Force operators.
• While maintaining that high level of performance, our team reduced the depot cycle (time between work on each airplane) by approximately 30 percent over the last two years.
• The Boeing team significantly exceeded every supply requirement and averaged a less than one-percent non-mission capable for supply rate over the last nine years. This means that more aircraft were available to the customer on a regular basis than was required per the contract.

No matter how this ends, we are very proud of our entire KC-10 CLS team and thankful for the opportunity to have contributed to this nation's defense.