The Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization program office and Boeing are working on ways to drive costs down during the 18-month preliminary design phase, which is slated to begin after a contract award in September. "We're always looking for opportunities to accelerate our acquisition processes," Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told Inside the Air Force Aug. 15. "Because it's a design contract, it depends. If you have engineers that are able to do their analysis faster, that might be a place that...