Wright-Patt’s AFLCMC awards Boeing $3.1 billion for new KC-46s

15 air refuelers slated for Air Force and four for Israel
U.S. Airmen with the 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron tow a new KC-46A Pegasus aircraft into Hangar 1126 at McConnell Air Force base, Kansas, Jan. 25, 2019. The KC-46 was displayed at center stage to allow guests a closer look inside the new aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alan Ricker)

U.S. Airmen with the 22nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron tow a new KC-46A Pegasus aircraft into Hangar 1126 at McConnell Air Force base, Kansas, Jan. 25, 2019. The KC-46 was displayed at center stage to allow guests a closer look inside the new aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alan Ricker)
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The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awarded Boeing Co. a total of $3.1 billion to produce KC-46 aircraft for the U.S. Air Force and Israel.

Boeing has been awarded a $2,214,952,163 modification to an existing contract for 15 KC-46A Air Force Production Lot 8 aircraft, subscriptions and licenses, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

Also, Boeing been awarded a not-to-exceed $927,492,124 undefinitized contract for four KC-46A aircraft for Israel.

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Work will be performed in Seattle, and is expected to be completed by the end of November 2025.

Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement funds in the amount of $147,540,041; and fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement funds in the amount of just over $2 billion are being obligated at the time of award.

It’s a high-profile contract for the Air Force. Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, today’s commander of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson, once led the tanker directorate at Wright-Patterson in charge of the KC-46 program, shepherding at one time a one-for-one replacement of the entire tanker fleet of 455 fuel-hauling jets, with plans to build even more.

“It’s very important the KC-46 schedule delays resolve themselves,” then-Brig. Gen. Richardson told the Dayton Daily News in October 2016. “We’re pushing very hard.”

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