The Air Force Association’s annual Air Warfare Symposium runs Feb. 24-26, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. It features a range of speakers, including Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh, leaders of the service’s major commands, and other aviation and aerospace experts. The theme of this year’s conference is “global precision attack.” For up-to-date information from AFA about the conference, click here. Track the conference on social media by following us on Twitter and Facebook or by using #AWS16.
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.