{"id":22036,"date":"2019-09-18T19:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/18\/amc-commander-boeing-has-not-made-progress-on-kc-46\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:58:20","slug":"amc-commander-boeing-has-not-made-progress-on-kc-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/your-air-force\/2019\/09\/18\/amc-commander-boeing-has-not-made-progress-on-kc-46\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC commander: Boeing has not made progress on KC-46"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. \u2014 It\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/air-force-association\/\" target=_blank>eight months since the U.S. Air Force accepted the first KC-46 tanker from Boeing<\/a>, but the head of Air Mobility Command says the company hasn\u2019t made headway on the aircraft\u2019s biggest technical problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen we accepted the KC-46 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2018\/09\/17\/air-force-finds-new-kc-46-deficiencies-putting-planned-delivery-date-in-jeopardy\/\" target=\"_blank\">known CAT 1 deficiencies<\/a>, we did so with the belief that it offered the fastest route to achieve limited operational capability and meet an urgent war-fighter requirement,\u201d Gen. Maryanne Miller said during a Wednesday roundtable at the Air Force Association\u2019s conference. Miller used a shortened version of the term category 1, which the service uses to describe serious technical issues that impact safety or could result in the loss of an aircraft or life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEight months have passed since our first delivery, and Boeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2019\/04\/09\/air-force-improves-new-inspection-plan-for-kc-46s-paving-the-way-for-deliveries-to-restart\/\" target=\"_blank\">has not made any progress<\/a> [on the Remote Vision System],&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/air-force-association\/\" target=_blank><b>Click here to read more from the Air Force Association\u2019s 2019 conference. <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2018\/05\/09\/remember-that-list-of-kc-46-problems-heres-how-theyre-getting-fixed\/\" target=\"_blank\">The tanker\u2019s Remote Vision System<\/a>, a Rockwell Collins-designed camera suite that allows operators to steer the boom into a receiver aircraft without physically watching the process through a window, as is the case with the legacy KC-10 and KC-135.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, the RVS presents imagery that is distorted in certain lighting conditions, posing difficulties for boom operators and leading to incidents of accidental scraping of the surface of receiver aircraft with the boom \u2014 leading to two category 1 deficiencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Miller, Boeing needs to make progress in improving the \u201cacuity\u201d of the system, which currently presents imagery comparable to what a person with 20\/50 vision would see. The company also needs to improve what Miller termed \u201cdepth plane compression,\u201d which is how the user internalizes the distance between the boom and the receiver aircraft based on that imagery.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/industry\/2018\/10\/24\/boeing-adds-another-179m-in-cost-overruns-to-kc-46-as-delivery-draws-near\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/KC-46-test-fleet.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Boeing adds $179M in cost overruns to KC-46 aircraft as delivery draws near<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Defense News estimates Boeing has now had to pay about $3.5 billion over the life of the KC-46 program so far.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boeing presented the Air Force with a \u201cpreliminary\u201d redesign of the RVS that includes new hardware and software, Jamie Burgess, Boeing\u2019s KC-46 program manager, told Defense News on Tuesday. The Air Force has not decided whether to accept it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe basics of the approach is to enhance the system so it provides more dynamic adjustment to contrast and varying environmental conditions,\u201d he said. \u201cIt does more dynamic adjustment on its own, as opposed to the operator having to make adjustments. And then that&#8217;s going to provide some enhancements as far as resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burgess declined to say how much of system\u2019s hardware must be replaced but did note that \u201ckey components\u201d of the vision system would be changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt&#8217;s not just one thing, it&#8217;s not just a camera or a display,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are things throughout the system that will get adjusted. But we\u2019re in the early phases of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miller said she has not personally been briefed on the redesign, but that she and Boeing officials have a discussion scheduled for Sept. 30. The newest category 1 deficiency, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/breaking-news\/2019\/09\/11\/air-force-restricts-kc-46-from-carrying-cargo-and-personnel\/\" target=\"_blank\">which Defense News first reported on Sept. 11<\/a>, will also be a topic of conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, the Air Force put restrictions on the KC-46 that will keep it from being able to carry passengers and cargo for an indefinite period of time. The problem, which was discovered on a single tanker, was that multiple cargo restraint devices had became unlocked during a series of flights. Although the restraint devices did not completely open up and release the cargo, allowing it to roll freely throughout the cabin, AMC officials worried that such a scenario would pose considerable safety risks to personnel and potentially unbalance the plane during flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the root cause is still under investigation, Boeing believes that the vibrations from flying or landing is creating friction between the rails of the cargo floor and the latch on the back of the lock, causing the latch to move to a position in which it is no longer fully engaged, Burgess said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/breaking-news\/2019\/09\/11\/air-force-restricts-kc-46-from-carrying-cargo-and-personnel\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5704362.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US Air Force restricts KC-46 from carrying cargo and passengers<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The KC-46 has added another critical deficiency to the list, and it&#039;s the most serious problem yet.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe concept for a fix is to put something in there that is a secondary latching like a spring or something like that that will hold it in place,\u201d he told Defense News during an interview at the conference. \u201cWe\u2019ve not finalized that, but it\u2019s something that we\u2019re working with the Air Force on, and the intent is to get some parts tested soon. We have some prototype parts that are being tested right now, and if the design works, then we would get it out there and get it on the airplanes. And we think that\u2019s a relatively near-term thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boeing is also developing a fit for a tie-down cargo restraint to allow the Air Force to resume some test flights with cargo before the restraints are retrofitted with a secondary lock, he said. 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