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KC-46 critical design review nearing completion

Issue No. 15 | August 01-15, 2013

The US Air Force and Boeing successfully conducted the KC-46 critical design review, or CDR, from July 8-10 at the Boeing facility in Mukilteo, Wash. The KC-46 weapon system CDR was the culmination of nine months of component and sub-system design reviews, which blended the best practices of both the commercial and Department of Defense frameworks.

Currently, the CDR still has a few actions to finish, but the process is scheduled to be completed well in advance of the September 24 contractual date.

“The efforts by the combined Boeing and Air Force team to get to this point in the programme development have been tremendous,” said Major General John Thompson, the Programme Executive Officer for tankers. “For the warfighter, completion of this milestone is a big step forward toward beginning the recapitalisation of the air force’s legacy KC-135 fleet, delivering advanced and improved multimission capabilities to the fight on day one.”