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The latest cost projections for the KC-46 development program found that Boeing may end up absorbing as much as $700 million in cost overruns.
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The U.S. Air Force announced that Altus AFB, Fairchild AFB, Wash., Grand Forks AFB, N.D., and McConnell AFB, are candidate bases for the first active-duty led KC-46A main operating base.
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Boeing has started assembling the first refueling boom for the KC-46 at the Boom Assembly Center that opened yesterday at Boeing Field in Seattle.
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Maj. Gen. J.T. Thompson, program director for the KC-46, said Singapore is the first country to request information on the KC-46A.
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Boeing is looking into delivering the KC-46A to international customers as early as 2018.
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