KC-46A Pegasus

Name: KC-46A Pegasus acquisition cost growth
Creator: Aous Abdo
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KC-46 · Air Force · Boeing

−14% $51.7B (2011) → $44.4B (2018)

KC-46A Pegasus: cost trajectory from $51.7B in 2011 to $44.4B in 2018, −14% growth.

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Baseline

$51.7B (2011)

Current estimate

$44.4B (2018)

Cost growth

−14%

Units

179 → 179

Quantity change

Unit-cost change

−14%

IOC

2017 (assets available) → 2019+ (delivered late)

Schedule slip

+2 yr

Cost basis

Confidence

medium · reconciled

Government cost FELL ~14% because EMD is fixed-price — Boeing absorbed >$7B in overruns NOT reflected here. The rare MDAP where the contractor, not the taxpayer, ate the growth. (Later FY2023 figures sit in a whs.mil-only MSAR.)

Source: GAO-12-366 (baseline APB, $51.7B TY); GAO-15-308 ($48.9B, Dec 2014) & GAO-16-346 ($48.2B, Dec 2015); GAO-18-353 (confirmed current $44.4B TY / 179 a/c, "stable"). All then-year.

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