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Air Force

Boeing Gets More Than $7 Billion in Pentagon Awards For Army Apache And USAF KC-46s

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, November 25th, 2025

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Boeing Gets More Than $7 Billion in Pentagon Awards For Army Apache And USAF KC-46s

A U.S. Air Force KC-46 Pegasus aircraft from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., taxis during the Talisman Sabre 25 exercise in Australia on July 16th (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Tuesday was a banner day for Boeing [BA], as the company secured a nearly $4.7 billion award from the U.S. Army for production of AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and Longbow trainers in Mesa Ariz., and almost $2.5 billion from the Air Force to build Lot 12 KC-46A Pegasus tankers in Seattle. The Air Force award comes a year after Boeing received a Lot 11 award for 15 KC-46s (Defense Daily, Nov. 21, 2024). The service is gauging industry wherewithal to…

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