At the time, she was overseeing billions of dollars in contracts and, by her own admission, favoring Boeing.

Ms. Druyun said she favored Boeing with $5 billion worth of preferential contracts in exchange for hiring her in 2003.

The argument concerned statements by an Air Force procurement official who was sentenced Friday after admitting she had favored Boeing in contracts while seeking jobs there for herself and her family.

At that court proceeding, Ms. Druyun said she favored Boeing in several multibillion- dollar Air Force contracts.

He acknowledged that he secretly offered a job to an Air Force official, Darleen A. Druyun, while she was overseeing billions of dollars in contracts and, by her own admission, favoring Boeing.

As a result of that investigation, Darleen Druyun, an Air Force procurement official, was found to have been favoring Boeing with contracts while negotiating a $250,000-a-year job with the company.

Ms. Druyun said she favored Boeing in contracts in order to get jobs for herself and her family.

The other finalist for the contract was Dassault Aviation of France, which has been sputtering in frustration ever since Korean officials let it be known last month that they favored Boeing.

But Wolfgang H. Demisch of the First Boston Corporation favors Boeing as a "buy."

Lockheed is asking for the voiding of $6 billion in contracts in which Ms. Druyun has admitted she favored Boeing.