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Air Force Optimistic Boeing Will Meet KC-46 Deadline But Has ‘No Margin’

Tuesday, March 1st, 2016

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Air Force Optimistic Boeing Will Meet KC-46 Deadline But Has ‘No Margin’

Artist rendering of a KC-46A refueling F-35 fighters. Rendering by Boeing

The Air Force has no margin left to accommodate fielding of the KC-46A aerial refueling tanker if Boeing [BA] misses its August 2017 deadline to deliver the first 18 aircraft.“We have no schedule margin,” Air Force Lt. Gen Arnold Bunch, military deputy to the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, testified March 1 before the House Armed Services subcommittee on seapower and projection forces.“We’re still cautiously optimistic,” Bunch said. “Boeing still says that they can meet it. They…

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