Has USAF Taken “Slow Down” to Heart for Space Radar?: USAF proposes $266 million in 2007 for the Space Radar program. The dollars would fund technology maturation, demonstration, and risk reduction activities. Congress has questioned whether the program is moving too fast and trimmed its 2006 funding.
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.