The 63rd Air Refueling Squadron refuels a C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 15th Airlift Squadron, Joint Base Charleston, ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program in December 1979, known as the Cargo-Experimental (C-X) competition, as a means of finding a new strategic airlift aircraft that was ...

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III takes off after emergency vehicles and cargo have been offloaded in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, ...

The dispensers were 80 times more expensive than the commercially available alternative. The audit of C-17 part purchases was done in response to a DoD Hotline allegation. The US Air Force overpaid ...

Boeing overcharged the Air Force for simple spare parts on C-17 aircraft by $1 million over a four-year period, according to the Pentagon. The defense giant marked up the cost of soap dispensers by ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An emergency spending bill approved by the Senate on Thursday includes $227.5 million to continue production of Boeing's C-17 transport aircraft, which supports about 1,800 jobs in ...

On Apr. 10, 2025, a C-17 from Joint Base Lewis-McChord became the first in the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command to take fuel from a commercially contracted KDC-10B. Omega Air Refueling, based in ...

The C-17 Globemaster III isn't as old as planes like the famously ancient (yet still remarkably effective) B-52 Stratofortress, but it's still getting to be a little long in the tooth, as it has been ...

The Boeing Company BA recently secured a $24.5 million contract to carry out enhancements for the C-17 Globemaster III jet program. The contract involves conducting studies, implementing ...

Boeing is in the early stages of discussing a potential restart of C-17 Globemaster III production, which ceased in November 2015. This exploration is prompted by interest from several countries, some ...

The State Department has approved a potential follow-on $195 million foreign military sale of sustainment support services to Canada’s fleet of C-17 military cargo aircraft. Canada requested aircraft ...