Buying next-generation refueling tankers from both Boeing and Northrop Grumman-EADS could add more than $2 billion in development costs, a top House appropriator said this week. Despite the hefty increase at the front end of the program, House Appropriations defense subcommittee Chairman John Murtha (D-PA) still believes the investment will pay off over the life of the Air Force's lengthy KC-X tanker replacement program. "We think in the long run, the billions of dollars we have to spend on development...
