
The Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a $2.3 billion Lot 10 production order to build 15 more KC-46A tankers. With the latest production order, Boeing said it’s now under contract for 153 of the aerial refueling tankers globally. “We appreciate our partnership with the U.S. Air Force, which allows for the expansion of the capacity and capability of the KC-46A fleet,” Lynn Fox, Boeing’s KC-46 program manager, said in a statement following the award announcement on Tuesday evening. “We…