The Air Force today awarded Boeing a $1 billion contract to improve the C-17 airlifter, the service's premier troop and equipment mover. The contract calls for the company to "provide for analysis, study, plan, design, development and qualifications/test and kit prototype of enhancements and improvements" to the aircraft. Work is expected to be finished by January 2008, according to a Defense Department statement. C-17 builder Boeing was the only company to bid on the contract. According to DOD, $1.4 million...
