Boeing needs the Air Force to include a dozen additional C-17 airlifters in its fiscal year 2008 budget blueprint to keep the Globemaster production line humming until the end of this decade, company officials said today. "We're at the first or second inning of the next lot, which is why [this decision] is upon us again," said Dave Bowman, Boeing vice president and C-17 program manager. "The 12 comes from keeping the rate at 15 a year, which is what...
