Costs Rising For KC-46 Boom Fix As RVS Design Faces Continued Delays

Brian Everstine June 08, 2023
U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-46

A U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-46 undergoes maintenance at McConnell AFB, Kansas, in 2021. 

Credit: U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force and Boeing are seeing the costs increase for a needed boom redesign for the KC-46 tanker as well as delays for the new Remote Vision System (RVS) and the schedule for a required production aircraft, according to a new assessment. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), in...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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