{"id":41076,"date":"2015-07-30T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T22:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2015\/07\/30\/boeing-shuffles-leadership-for-struggling-kc-46-program\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:15:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:15:55","slug":"boeing-shuffles-leadership-for-struggling-kc-46-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/training-sim\/2015\/07\/30\/boeing-shuffles-leadership-for-struggling-kc-46-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Shuffles Leadership for Struggling KC-46 Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ID=20996435\" assetid=\"20996435\" assettype=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/2e03a1a2ff524ac1562bd02d26bd4f0dca30fe44\/c=357-0-1836-1264\/local\/-\/media\/2014\/12\/29\/DefenseNews\/DefenseNews\/635554432865348032-KC46-767-3.jpg\" title=\"KC46-767-2C-In-Flight[ID=20996435]\" width=\"245px\"\/>WASHINGTON \u2014 Hit with a major cost overrun charge and left with little room for error on its KC-46 tanker program, Boeing is bringing in some emergency help for the\u00a0<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">its tanker<\/span> program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott Fancher, the company&#8217;s head of d<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">D<\/span>evelopment p<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">P<\/span>rograms at Commercial Airplanes, has been tasked with righting a program that forms the backbone of Boeing&#8217;s military aviation future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to employees, newly minted Boeing P<span class=\"rte rte-comment\">p<\/span>resident and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said he was tasking Fancher to &#8220;provide senior executive oversight and increased management support to the tanker program.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Scott will work closely with Jim O&#8217;Neill, who is standing up the new Boeing Defense, Space &#038; Security (BDS) Development Programs organization within BDS, and Pat Dolan, our enterprise Lean+\/CVQ leader, to ensure that the full extent of Boeing resources and expertise are applied to meet our commitment to deliver the initial 18 tankers in 2017,&#8221; Muilenburg said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s hard not to read the move as a sign that the company has grown concerned with the progress of the KC-46 program, despite promises that it is still on track to meet its Aug. 2017 requirement to have 18 tankers ready to go,<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The choice of Fancher is an interesting one, as it hands some control over the tanker program to the commercial side of company. However, that doesn&#8217;t mean he has no experience with the tanker, nicknamed the Pegasus by the Air Force. The KC-46 is a militarized version of Boeing&#8217;s 767 commercial airplane, and Fancher&#8217;s bio says he &#8220;leads the design, development, test and certification of the next generation of airplane models, including the 737 MAX, 777X, 787-10 and KC-46 Tanker.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a rough year for the KC-46. The plane has missed a series of target dates for first flight, and has also encountered two technical challenges that have hit Boeing in the wallet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company&#8217;s contract with the Air Force caps the service&#8217;s liability for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the tanker at $4.9 billion, with any overages paid by Boeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of a recent earnings call, Boeing revealed it had found an issue with the integrated fuel system on the plane, which led to a pre-tax charge of $835 million. 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