Boeing defense business narrows losses as company battles MAX crisis
The aerospace giant chose to forego overall financial guidance for 2024 as it struggles with safety concerns in its commercial business.
The aerospace giant chose to forego overall financial guidance for 2024 as it struggles with safety concerns in its commercial business.
Breaking Defense toured Boeing’s Seattle-area facilities where the KC-46A is built, and company officials explained fixes in the works for six critical issues, from new cameras to better seals on fuel lines.
The Department of the Air Force Battle Network represents “the physical architecture, the product architecture, that's needed” to realize JADC2 capabilities, Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey, the integrating program executive officer for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management, said in an interview with Breaking Defense.
Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter indicated he was leaning toward buying 75 more KC-46A tankers as a bridge to an accelerated next-gen program.
"I was surprised the anticipated initial operational capability for NGAS is 2040. It is likely that this RFI and the subsequent Analysis of Alternatives will find that there are viable options for the Air Force to accelerate the fielding of KC-Z," the Hudson Institute's Tim Walton said in an email to Breaking Defense.