In all likeliness the Globaleyes were in the RFQ response which was delivered in February. It’s not like they can suddenly come and say “Oh and you get this lovely baseball cap on top of all that”. But clearly publishing the matter now, just day after the Swiss debacle, is no coincidence.

FAF was studying possibility for AEW aircraft acquisition in the ’90s, but back then it was clearly complely unrealistic, with it already being not-a-minor miracle that they got the Hornets.