An entry in Monday’s column on the Launch Control Center NetLink system misspelled the name of its creator: Douglas Angell, a technical engineer with the 526th ICBM Systems Group at Minot AFB, N.D. We’ve corrected the original entry and apologize to Mr. Angell for the error.
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.