The Air Force is readying for the release of a new draft request for proposals in its high-profile KC-X next-generation tanker program, the service's top two acquisition officials said today. "We're in the process now internally within the department of going though the acquisition plan, the execution, to be able to then come out to industry in the middle part of this year," David Van Buren, the acting assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, said during a morning...
