AAR Airlift Group, Inc., is a civilian contractor that provides services to the Department of Defense (DOD).
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AAR Airlift Group, Inc., is a civilian contractor that provides services to the Department of Defense (DOD). The United States Transportation Command (USTC) issued a request for proposals (RFP) to procure airlift services for DOD operations in Africa. AAR submitted a proposal and was awarded the contract. USTC received a FOIA request for information about its contracting processes and was going to release the contract terms with AAR. The contract terms included confidential pricing terms and the contract provided that the information in the contract would be considered “confidential and proprietary information.” FOIA Exemption 4 allows the government to withhold information that is “commercial or financial,” “is obtained from a third party outside the government,” and is “privileged and confidential.” AAR told USTC that all of its contracts with government and private entities are private and confidential and that it does not release its pricing, particularly line-item pricing, because its competitors would gain an unfair advantage in the bidding process. AAR filed a reverse FOIA suit asking that the release of its contract and pricing information be stopped by an injunction. What should the court do and why? [AAR Airlift Group, Inc. v United States Transportation Command, 2015 WL 8215522 (D.C. 2015)]
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