The Air Force has awarded Boeing a new $1.1 billion contract to provide programmed depot maintenance for KC-135 tankers over the next 10 years. In a company statement, Pat Finneran, president of Boeing Support Systems, said that Boeing has sustained the KC-135 PDM program since 1998 “always on time … with proven results.”
Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost—a trailblazer and one of the first 10 women to reach a four-star rank across the U.S. military—retired and passed control of U.S. Transportation Command to Air Force Gen. Randall Reed on Oct. 4, finishing an eventful tenure at TRANSCOM.