Welsh wants Boeing to come up with “predictable” timetable for KC-46

The head of the U.S. Air Force, Gen. Mark Welsh, told Defense News he wants more oversight on the Boeing KC-46 program.

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“We’re at a point now where we really need to see the first flight of this tanker, the actual tanker variant,” Welsh said. “Then, we need to have a predictable milestone chart between now and the required-assets-available date in August of ’17 that we can track down with some definitive consistency from this point forward.”

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