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Air Force

Defense Department Inspector General to Scrutinize Original KC-46 Boom Design

By Vivienne Machi

Tuesday, September 17th, 2019

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Defense Department Inspector General to Scrutinize Original KC-46 Boom Design

Boeing's KC-46 Pegasus tanker aircraft. (Photo: Boeing)

The Defense Department Office of the Inspector General announced Sept. 16 it plans to evaluate how the Air Force determined requirements to design and develop the refueling boom of the KC-46A Pegasus airborne tanker, which was discovered in 2018 to have issues connecting to one service aircraft and scraping when deployed. “Our objective is to determine whether the Air Force adhered to DoD and Air Force systems engineering processes during the design and development of the KC-46A airborne tanker refueling…

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