According to the Air Force’s just-released demographics snapshot that reports data as of June 30, the service has 328,763 active duty airmen, with 65,928 officers and 262,835 enlisted members. The service is still shy of its Fiscal 2010 end strength goal of 332,700 airmen by just over 3,900 personnel. That’s improved since the last snapshot, released in April, which showed it about 6,500 short. Compared to the earlier data, the Air Force gender ratio has not changed; women still comprise about 19.6 percent of the force.
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.