Boeing today moved to scuttle its C-17 airlifter production line in 2009 when it told the program's 700 suppliers to cease work on all Globemasters for which the defense giant has yet to find a probable buyer. Still, one senior company official stressed, "this decision is reversible." Boeing over the past several months has given Pentagon officials "every opportunity" to make a commitment to purchase additional C-17s, John Sams, the company's vice president of Air Force programs for its Integrated...
