The Air Force's recent announcement that its KC-46 delivery schedule was aligned with prime contractor Boeing's came after the two parties agreed on a slate of schedule mitigation efforts, Inside Defense has learned. The service announced June 20 that it had reached an agreement with Boeing on a joint program schedule that anticipates the first new KC-46 will be delivered in October and the remaining 17 tankers by April 2019. The schedule alignment came after months of disagreement between the...
