GAO highlights Boeing's efforts to mitigate KC-46 testing delays

By Courtney Albon / April 19, 2018 at 10:12 AM
A Government Accountability Office report released this week offers some insight into Boeing's efforts to mitigate further KC-46 delivery delays and highlights discrepancies between the company's predictions and those of the Air Force. To date, the Air Force is projecting Boeing will deliver the first 18 KC-46 tankers in spring 2019 -- a 21-month delay from the program's initial time line. However, the company has said it is still aiming to deliver the jets by October and is implementing a...

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