Boeing’s Steve Parker said he expects a contract for F-15EX lot 2 and 3 “will be at the advertised price” when it is finalized in a couple months. The price claim comes after lawmakers bemoaned lack of oversight on unit costs for the fighter.
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“You get this dynamic, where [companies] become very focused on, ‘We need to finish, we’re going to finish what’s in the contract, anything that appears to us to be in any way, shape, or form not 100% required explicitly in the contract is an extra bill,'” Air Force acquisition executive Andrew Hunter said.
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Although lawmakers repeatedly said their position wasn’t meant to favor a particular company, in some respects the debate was held over parochial lines, as some of the most outspoken had interests in their districts.
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A production decision is now anticipated to occur in 2023, having slipped from the original date of September 2021.
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Boeing expects to sell up to 42 KC-46 tankers in addition to its current backlog, said Mike Hafer, the company’s senior manager for KC-46 business development.
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Moving to the development stage more than likely means that the Air Force has coalesced around a single fighter design made by a single prime contractor, said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst with AeroDynamic Advisory.
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The Germany Ministry of Defense has selected Boeing’s CH-47F Chinook over Lockheed Martin Sikorsky’s CH-53K.
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The Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile program, although nascent, is “going pretty well,” program executive Brig. Gen. Heath Collins told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview.
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The major driver of the delay is the bankruptcy of GDC Technics, Boeing’s original subcontractor for the VC-25B’s interiors, and the hiring of a new interior supplier, said Andrew Hunter, the Air Force’s assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics.
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“Getting the airplanes is about a two-year process, and then modifying them is another two year process,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Tuesday. “There are things that we could do, however, to maybe get access to aircraft earlier one way or another.”
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The Air Force could not provide a cost estimate detailing what the service will pay in order to replace the KC-46’s panoramic sensors.
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Israel Aerospace Industries President and CEO Boaz Levy speaks to Breaking Defense about his envisioned ‘network’ of firms in the US, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and new Gulf customers.
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The Air Force can’t wait when it comes to modernizing command and control, writes the Mitchell Institute’s Douglas Birkey.
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