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Air Force To Award KC-46A Tanker Upgrades Contract To Boeing

By Marc Selinger

Friday, May 4th, 2018

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Air Force To Award KC-46A Tanker Upgrades Contract To Boeing

Boeing's KC-46 tanker modification center in Everett, Wash. (Photo by Marc Selinger/Defense Daily)

EVERETT, Wash. – Boeing [BA] expects to receive a U.S. Air Force contract later this year to begin developing future upgrades for the new KC-46A Pegasus tanker, according to a company program official.The contract will allow the program to do things that are not required under the existing tanker development contract that the Air Force awarded Boeing in 2011, said Mike Gibbons, Boeing's KC-46 vice president and program manager. The new contract will call for “road-mapping what a next of set…

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