USAF plans to move Cyber Command, being developed now within 8th Air Force, “sometime soon” into major command status, Gen. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff, said Wednesday in testimony before the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee. Moseley predicted a public announcement in late summer or early fall.
The Air Force and Boeing agreed to a nearly $2.4 billion contract for a new lot of KC-46 aerial tankers on Nov. 21. The deal, announced by the Pentagon, is for 15 new aircraft in Lot 11 at a cost of $2.389 billion—some $159 million per tail.