{
  "edition": "1.0",
  "program_id": "kc46",
  "name": "KC-46A Pegasus",
  "pno": "387",
  "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
  "evidence_cutoff": "2026-09-12T16:07:30Z",
  "time_zone": "America/New_York",
  "scope": "US KC-46A original/expanded 188-aircraft program, selected refueling upgrades and support. Foreign sales and the up-to-75-aircraft production extension are outside the counted fleet and cost baseline.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "k01",
      "publisher": "Department of the Air Force / WHS",
      "title": "KC-46A FY2027 President’s Budget MSAR",
      "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Selected_Acquisition_Reports/PB_2027_MSARs/KC46A_MSAR_FY2027_PB_cleared.pdf",
      "document_date": "2026-04-21",
      "locator": "PDF/printed pp. 8–12 (IOC, deliveries, upgrades, proposed APB); 13–15 (history and schedule); 17 (availability); 19 (refueling limits); 23–24 (WARPs); 26, 28 (cost/quantity comparisons); 30 (funding crosswalk); 38–39 (BTAR); 44 (production contracts); 49 (LRIP); 50–51 (delivery, financial summary and withheld fielding); 52–53 (foreign sales).",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "pdf_page": 8,
      "original_receipt": {
        "receipt_filename": "kc46-msar-pb2027.pdf",
        "sha256": "9528c23f77fbbb4ee96e9a130895bb074e5e99155667d0dd4eee37317f0c46f6",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12T13:55:58.048821+00:00",
        "http_last_modified": "Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:58:09 GMT"
      },
      "access_note": "Fresh direct recheck returned 403. Reviewed the preserved earlier same-day official PDF, including table page images. Cover effective April 21; contract reporting dates include May 13–14. HTTP Last-Modified August 18 is not a proven publication date."
    },
    {
      "id": "k02",
      "publisher": "U.S. Government Accountability Office",
      "title": "KC-46 Tanker Modernization: Delivery of First Fully Capable Aircraft Has Been Delayed over One Year — GAO-17-370",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-17-370.pdf",
      "document_date": "2017-03-24",
      "locator": "PDF p. 8 / printed p. 5: original RAA package, August 2017 obligation and $4.9bn development ceiling. PDF pp. 11–12 / printed pp. 8–9, Table 2: original February 2011 and January 2017 schedule comparison.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "pdf_page": 8,
      "access_note": "Official PDF read through browser retrieval; direct HTTP recheck returned 403."
    },
    {
      "id": "k03",
      "publisher": "Director, Operational Test & Evaluation",
      "title": "FY2025 Annual Report — KC-46A chapter",
      "url": "https://www.dote.osd.mil/Portals/97/pub/reports/FY2025/Other/2025Annual-Report.pdf",
      "document_date": "2026-03",
      "locator": "PDF pp. 247–249 / printed pp. 236–238: IOT&E timing, 85% of planned flight-test data, 26 of 27 candidate receiver types with restrictions, below-threshold suitability and deferred final assessment. Retrospective FY2025 coverage; its 183-aircraft description differs from the later MSAR.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "pdf_page": 247,
      "original_receipt": {
        "receipt_filename": "dote-fy2025.pdf",
        "sha256": "b684f515b0471b2616ec8961f64c4987b7d9b7965fbf6e7d051d1f832483c550",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12T13:56:19.890777+00:00",
        "http_last_modified": "Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:16:12 GMT"
      },
      "access_note": "Reviewed preserved same-day primary PDF. Browser full-PDF fetch hit a size limit; no claim of a fresh complete download."
    },
    {
      "id": "k04",
      "publisher": "U.S. Government Accountability Office",
      "title": "Weapon Systems Annual Assessment — GAO-26-108457",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108457.pdf",
      "document_date": "2026-07",
      "locator": "PDF p. 101 / printed p. 89: January 2026 status, 173 procured / 101 delivered, unmet RAA, subsystem redesigns and up-to-75-aircraft production extension. PDF p. 32 / printed p. 20 distinguishes IOC from RAA.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "pdf_page": 101,
      "original_receipt": {
        "receipt_filename": "gao-26-108457.pdf",
        "sha256": "f9afddd66fcaefe7c6f91dcf644a836a6b971fb792217c601cbc3d37adaac610",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12T13:56:12.343318+00:00",
        "http_last_modified": "Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:14:28 GMT"
      },
      "access_note": "Reviewed the preserved same-day primary PDF; January status is not September inventory."
    },
    {
      "id": "k05",
      "publisher": "U.S. Government Accountability Office",
      "title": "Aerial Refueling Tankers — GAO-26-109154",
      "url": "https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-109154/index.html",
      "document_date": "2026-06-10",
      "locator": "Sections “Air Force’s Availability and Capability Metrics,” “The Air Force Does Not Have a Complete Picture of Its Aerial Refueling Fleet’s Ability to Meet the Refueling Mission” and Figure 3 notes. January 2025 reporting-rule change; annual averages versus early-March snapshot; specific annual rates omitted from this public version.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official public HTML retrieved directly and read through browser retrieval. Does not provide the nonpublic annual-rate data."
    },
    {
      "id": "k06",
      "publisher": "Air Mobility Command / 22nd Air Refueling Wing",
      "title": "KC-46 Delivery — A milestone flight and a final farewell",
      "url": "https://www.amc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4460441/kc-46-delivery-a-milestone-flight-and-a-final-farewell/",
      "document_date": "2026-04-13",
      "locator": "Opening body paragraphs: April 3 arrival; crew’s mission was to accept the Air Force’s 105th KC-46A. April 13 is publication, not delivery date.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Read official page through browser retrieval; direct recheck returned 403."
    },
    {
      "id": "k07",
      "publisher": "Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs",
      "title": "Air Force announces next tanker aircraft",
      "url": "https://www.amc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/145902/air-force-announces-next-tanker-aircraft/",
      "document_date": "2011-02-25",
      "locator": "Opening paragraph: EMD contract over $3.5bn; concluding program description: four initial aircraft, 179 planned, first 18 by 2017. The February 24 award date is also preserved in MSAR p. 44.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official browser retrieval."
    },
    {
      "id": "k08",
      "publisher": "Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs",
      "title": "Air Force, Boeing agree on final KC-46 RVS 2.0 design",
      "url": "https://www.af.mil/News/Features/Article/2135364/air-force-boeing-agree-on-final-kc-46-rvs-20-design/",
      "document_date": "2020-04-02",
      "locator": "Paragraphs beginning “The first MOA” and “RVS 2.0 will include”: redesign/retrofit at no additional government cost and initial fielding goal of 2023. Separate second MOA releases $882m previously withheld payments; not a new procurement award.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official browser retrieval."
    },
    {
      "id": "k09",
      "publisher": "Air Mobility Command Public Affairs",
      "title": "KC-46A cleared for worldwide deployments following first combat refuel",
      "url": "https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3163982/kc-46a-cleared-for-worldwide-deployments-following-first-combat-refuel/",
      "document_date": "2022-09-20",
      "locator": "Opening: worldwide deployment approval effective September 14. Body paragraphs on employment exercise: operationally tasked combat refueling of F-15Es; 206 flight hours, 1.46m pounds offloaded to 66 aircraft.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official browser retrieval. Release does not close subsequent operational-test deficiencies."
    },
    {
      "id": "k10",
      "publisher": "Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs",
      "title": "Air Force, Boeing accelerate KC-46 upgrades to target readiness",
      "url": "https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4484901/air-force-boeing-accelerate-kc-46-upgrades-to-target-readiness/",
      "document_date": "2026-05-12",
      "locator": "“Repurposing early-built aircraft,” “Accelerating RVS 2.0 Retrofits,” and “Implementing Performance-Based Logistics”: five early-build aircraft; RVS fielding scheduled early 2028; retrofit plan 13 to seven years; proposed temporary logistics effort. Claimed availability gains are forecasts, with no public calculation baseline.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official browser retrieval; direct recheck returned 403. More recent fielding forecast than MSAR’s late-2027 capability-release estimate."
    },
    {
      "id": "k11",
      "publisher": "Boeing",
      "title": "KC-46 Program completes first phase of Remote Vision System 2.0 flight testing",
      "url": "https://www.boeing.com/features/2026/06/boeing-s-kc-46-program-completes-first-phase-of-remote-vision-system",
      "document_date": "2026-06-03",
      "locator": "Opening and “Why completion of initial flight-testing matters”: first phase tested on modified test aircraft, certification and delivery still ahead. Company-reported test progress, not independent operational certification.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official corporate primary report read through browser retrieval and direct HTML retrieval."
    },
    {
      "id": "k12",
      "publisher": "Defense Comptroller",
      "title": "FY2027 Procurement Programs (P-1)",
      "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/FY2027_p1.pdf",
      "document_date": "2026-04",
      "locator": "PDF pp. 226–227 / printed pp. 221–222: 3010F line 10 KC-46A aircraft; FY2026 discretionary enacted $2,749,974 thousand, 15 aircraft; FY2027 request $3,520,530 thousand, 15 aircraft. PDF pp. 234–235 / printed pp. 229–230: line 37 modifications, $19,344 thousand enacted and $85,515 thousand requested. Split column headers checked visually.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "pdf_page": 226,
      "original_receipt": {
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        "sha256": "b8d5248257590856ee33ddb1b401ec2efcdfea219c05b5bc8ea1068d9000d0a6",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12T13:56:02.675144+00:00",
        "http_last_modified": "Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:56:57 GMT"
      },
      "access_note": "Fresh download is byte-identical to preserved same-day official receipt; source table images inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "k13",
      "publisher": "Defense Comptroller",
      "title": "FY2027 RDT&E Programs (R-1)",
      "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/FY2027_r1.pdf",
      "document_date": "2026-04",
      "locator": "PDF p. 48 / printed p. 43: 3600F, line 117, PE 0401221F, KC-46A Tanker Squadrons. FY2026 discretionary enacted $130,175 thousand; FY2027 discretionary request $543,788 thousand. Entire PE, not an exclusive allocation to the original 188 aircraft.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "pdf_page": 48,
      "original_receipt": {
        "receipt_filename": "rdte-r1-pb2027.pdf",
        "sha256": "1aa8846edb69d4c3a54e03b383b0cabb77f93433162b8139ab8cbb55bcc7882a",
        "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12T13:56:04.709968+00:00",
        "http_last_modified": "Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:56:57 GMT"
      },
      "access_note": "Fresh download is byte-identical to preserved same-day official receipt; column headers checked visually."
    },
    {
      "id": "k14",
      "publisher": "Department of Defense",
      "title": "Contracts for November 21, 2024 — KC-46A Lot 11",
      "url": "https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/3974996/",
      "document_date": "2024-11-21",
      "locator": "AIR FORCE opening paragraph: modification P00326 to FA8625-11-C-6600; 15 Lot 11 aircraft, G081, subscriptions and licenses; $2,389,323,828 action and same FY2025 procurement obligation. MSAR p. 44 instead labels Lot 11 P00327 / November 22; not counted as a second purchase.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official indexed contract text inspected. Opening URL redirects to war.gov; current reader did not reliably expose the historic contract body. Exact historic identifier/date is retained with its discrepancy, not silently reconciled."
    },
    {
      "id": "k15",
      "publisher": "Air Force Materiel Command / 88th Air Base Wing",
      "title": "AF awards KC-46A Aircrew Training System contract",
      "url": "https://www.afmc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/153478/af-awards-kc-46a-aircrew-training-system-contract/",
      "document_date": "2013-05-02",
      "locator": "Second body paragraph: $78,369,818 initial ATS development contract, $1m initial obligation, incremental funding and later options. MSAR p. 37 gives May 1 award date and FA862113C6247.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official browser retrieval. Publication day and MSAR award day retained separately."
    },
    {
      "id": "k16",
      "publisher": "Boeing",
      "title": "Boeing Awarded Contract for 15 Additional U.S. Air Force KC-46A Tankers",
      "url": "https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=131617",
      "document_date": "2025-11-25",
      "locator": "Datelined opening: Lot 12, 15 additional US aircraft, $2.47bn rounded value. Exact action/obligation from MSAR p. 44. Global total in company release includes foreign aircraft and is excluded from US tally.",
      "reviewed_at": "2026-09-12",
      "access_note": "Official corporate primary announcement read through browser retrieval."
    }
  ],
  "schedule": [
    {
      "id": "raa",
      "event": "Required Assets Available (RAA)",
      "original": "2017-08",
      "production_objective": "2018-10",
      "revised_objective": "2023-06",
      "revised_threshold": "2023-12",
      "actual": null,
      "forecast": null,
      "status": "Not achieved in reviewed MSAR; current schedule table blank; WARP delivery forecast Q4 CY2027 is a driver, not a declaration.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01",
        "k02"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 10–12,15; GAO-17-370 PDF pp. 8,11–12."
    },
    {
      "id": "frp",
      "event": "Full-rate production decision",
      "original": "2017-06",
      "production_objective": "2019-08",
      "revised_objective": "2024-03",
      "revised_threshold": "2024-09",
      "actual": null,
      "forecast": null,
      "status": "Not achieved in reviewed record; final configuration/IOT&E drives decision. No replacement date asserted.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01",
        "k02"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 11–12,15,49; GAO-17-370 Table 2."
    },
    {
      "id": "iot",
      "event": "IOT&E start milestone",
      "original": "2016-05",
      "production_objective": "2017-11",
      "revised_objective": "2019-10",
      "revised_threshold": "2019-10",
      "actual": "2019-10",
      "forecast": null,
      "status": "MSAR table says October 23, note says October 22; month only used. Dedicated test activity began May 2019.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01",
        "k02",
        "k03"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR p. 15; GAO-17-370 Table 2; DOT&E printed p. 237."
    }
  ],
  "delivery_snapshot": {
    "as_of": "2026-04",
    "development_delivered": 4,
    "procurement_delivered": 101,
    "delivered_total": 105,
    "planned_to_date": 113,
    "program_quantity": 188,
    "september_delivered_total": null,
    "operational_inventory_total": null,
    "inventory_status": "withheld/unknown, not zero",
    "source_ids": [
      "k01",
      "k06"
    ],
    "locator": "MSAR pp. 10,50–51; AMC April 13 release (April 3 event)."
  },
  "performance_snapshot": {
    "metric": "Operational availability (Ao)",
    "as_of": "2026-03",
    "reported_percent": 55.7,
    "threshold_percent": 80.0,
    "difference_percentage_points": 24.3,
    "source_id": "k01",
    "locator": "MSAR p. 17",
    "definition_note": "Percent of total inventory available for tasking after depot and non-mission-capable exclusions; January 2025 reporting-rule change prevents naive cross-year comparison. Not a September mission-capable rate."
  },
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    {
      "basis": "constant 2011 USD million",
      "baseline_date": "2011-08-24",
      "baseline_quantity": 179,
      "current_quantity": 188,
      "metric": "Acquisition total",
      "baseline": 43518.2,
      "current": 33913.9,
      "source_id": "k01",
      "locator": "MSAR p. 28"
    },
    {
      "basis": "constant 2011 USD million",
      "baseline_date": "2011-08-24",
      "baseline_quantity": 179,
      "current_quantity": 188,
      "metric": "Program acquisition unit cost",
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      "current": 180.393,
      "source_id": "k01",
      "locator": "MSAR p. 28"
    },
    {
      "basis": "constant 2016 USD million",
      "baseline_date": "2017-01-13 / 2022-05-27",
      "baseline_quantity": 179,
      "current_quantity": 188,
      "metric": "Acquisition total",
      "baseline": 39529.1,
      "current": 36389.3,
      "source_id": "k01",
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 26,28"
    },
    {
      "basis": "constant 2016 USD million",
      "baseline_date": "2017-01-13 / 2022-05-27",
      "baseline_quantity": 179,
      "current_quantity": 188,
      "metric": "Program acquisition unit cost",
      "baseline": 220.833,
      "current": 193.56,
      "source_id": "k01",
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 26,28"
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      "category": "RDT&E",
      "current_constant_2016": 6324.2,
      "current_then_year": 6295.9,
      "source_id": "k01"
    },
    {
      "category": "Procurement",
      "current_constant_2016": 28072.6,
      "current_then_year": 34567.6,
      "source_id": "k01"
    },
    {
      "category": "Military construction",
      "current_constant_2016": 1992.5,
      "current_then_year": 2413.0,
      "source_id": "k01"
    },
    {
      "category": "Total",
      "current_constant_2016": 36389.3,
      "current_then_year": 43276.5,
      "source_id": "k01"
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  ],
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      "fiscal_year": 2026,
      "scope": "3010F line 10 · aircraft procurement, 15 aircraft",
      "amount": 2749.974,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year",
      "stage": "appropriated_base",
      "source_id": "k12",
      "locator": "P-1 PDF pp. 226–227",
      "note": "Selected line, not all program spending. No obligation/outlay inferred."
    },
    {
      "id": "fy2026-mods",
      "fiscal_year": 2026,
      "scope": "3010F line 37 · aircraft modifications",
      "amount": 19.344,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year",
      "stage": "appropriated_base",
      "source_id": "k12",
      "locator": "P-1 PDF pp. 234–235",
      "note": "Selected line, not all program spending. No obligation/outlay inferred."
    },
    {
      "id": "fy2026-rdte",
      "fiscal_year": 2026,
      "scope": "3600F line 117 · PE 0401221F, KC-46A Tanker Squadrons",
      "amount": 130.175,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year",
      "stage": "appropriated_base",
      "source_id": "k13",
      "locator": "R-1 PDF p. 48",
      "note": "Entire PE; original program, modifications and possible extension scope not independently allocated."
    },
    {
      "id": "fy2027-aircraft",
      "fiscal_year": 2027,
      "scope": "3010F line 10 · aircraft procurement, 15 aircraft",
      "amount": 3520.53,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year",
      "stage": "request",
      "source_id": "k12",
      "locator": "P-1 PDF pp. 226–227",
      "note": "Selected line, not all program spending. No obligation/outlay inferred."
    },
    {
      "id": "fy2027-mods",
      "fiscal_year": 2027,
      "scope": "3010F line 37 · aircraft modifications",
      "amount": 85.515,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year",
      "stage": "request",
      "source_id": "k12",
      "locator": "P-1 PDF pp. 234–235",
      "note": "Selected line, not all program spending. No obligation/outlay inferred."
    },
    {
      "id": "fy2027-rdte",
      "fiscal_year": 2027,
      "scope": "3600F line 117 · PE 0401221F, KC-46A Tanker Squadrons",
      "amount": 543.788,
      "units": "USD million",
      "price_basis": "then-year",
      "stage": "request",
      "source_id": "k13",
      "locator": "R-1 PDF p. 48",
      "note": "Entire PE; original program, modifications and possible extension scope not independently allocated."
    }
  ],
  "contracts": [
    {
      "id": "emd-ceiling",
      "date": "2011-02-24",
      "title": "Initial development contract",
      "piid": "FA8625-11-C-6600",
      "modification": null,
      "value": 4900000000,
      "value_stage": "ceiling",
      "obligation_at_award": null,
      "source_id": "k02",
      "note": "Historical $4.9bn development ceiling described by GAO; not the original announcement value, paid total or ceiling on all later scope."
    },
    {
      "id": "ats",
      "date": "2013-05-01",
      "title": "Aircrew Training System development",
      "piid": "FA8621-13-C-6247",
      "modification": null,
      "value": 78369818,
      "value_stage": "action",
      "obligation_at_award": 1000000,
      "source_id": "k15",
      "note": "Training devices/courseware, not aircraft. May 1 date in MSAR p. 37; May 2 release; remaining funding incremental."
    },
    {
      "id": "lot11",
      "date": "2024-11-21",
      "title": "15 Lot 11 production aircraft and associated items",
      "piid": "FA8625-11-C-6600",
      "modification": "P00326",
      "value": 2389323828,
      "value_stage": "action",
      "obligation_at_award": 2389323828,
      "source_id": "k14",
      "note": "Official contract announcement. MSAR instead lists P00327 / Nov 22 and rounded $2.4bn. Discrepancy retained; not another lot."
    },
    {
      "id": "lot12",
      "date": "2025-11-25",
      "title": "Lot 12 option exercise",
      "piid": "FA8625-11-C-6600",
      "modification": "P00334",
      "value": 2469937347.75,
      "value_stage": "action",
      "obligation_at_award": 2469937347.75,
      "source_id": "k01",
      "note": "MSAR p. 44 exact increase and obligation; Boeing K16 confirms 15 aircraft and rounded $2.47bn. Not a delivered-aircraft count."
    },
    {
      "id": "btar-funding",
      "date": "2026-04-02",
      "title": "Boom Telescope Actuator Redesign funding",
      "piid": "FA8625-11-C-6600",
      "modification": "P00337",
      "value": 12000000,
      "value_stage": "action",
      "obligation_at_award": 12000000,
      "source_id": "k01",
      "note": "MSAR p. 38: CLIN 0027 overrun funding on cost-plus BTAR effort. Do not generalize original fixed-price protection to this later scope."
    }
  ],
  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "t01",
      "date": "2011-02-24",
      "category": "Contract",
      "title": "Development award",
      "text": "Original program targeted 179 tankers and the first 18 by 2017; GAO specifies the full RAA package due August 2017.",
      "source_id": "k07",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t02",
      "date": "2016-08",
      "category": "Decision",
      "title": "Low-rate production approved",
      "text": "Production approval followed testing; it did not mean full-rate production or final capability had been achieved.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t03",
      "date": "2017-08",
      "category": "Decision",
      "title": "Original RAA deadline",
      "text": "Required package: 18 fully configured aircraft, nine WARP shipsets and two spare engines. This is a missed commitment, not an actual delivery.",
      "source_id": "k02",
      "status": "baseline"
    },
    {
      "id": "t04",
      "date": "2019-01-10",
      "category": "Delivery",
      "title": "First government acceptance",
      "text": "First aircraft accepted January 10; first operating-base delivery to McConnell followed January 25.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t05",
      "date": "2019-10",
      "category": "Test",
      "title": "IOT&E start milestone",
      "text": "Formal milestone recorded in October; dedicated testing began in May. The MSAR disagrees by one day within October.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t06",
      "date": "2020-04-02",
      "category": "Decision",
      "title": "RVS 2.0 redesign agreed",
      "text": "No-additional-government-cost redesign/retrofit agreement targeted initial fielding in 2023. A forecast, not a delivered fix.",
      "source_id": "k08",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t07",
      "date": "2022-05-27",
      "category": "Decision",
      "title": "APB Change 3 signed",
      "text": "RAA objective June 2023 / threshold December 2023; FRP March 2024 / September 2024. These remain visible after breaches.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t08",
      "date": "2022-09-14",
      "category": "Decision",
      "title": "Worldwide deployment clearance",
      "text": "AMC cleared combatant-command taskings; official release also records an operationally tasked F-15E refueling mission.",
      "source_id": "k09",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t09",
      "date": "2024-10-04",
      "category": "Decision",
      "title": "IOC effective date",
      "text": "AMC declaration dated December 23 made IOC effective October 4; it did not declare the RAA package complete.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t10",
      "date": "2025-11-14",
      "category": "Test",
      "title": "RVS 2.0 first flight",
      "text": "Functional-check and no-contact test campaign began on a modified test aircraft, not a fleet retrofit.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t11",
      "date": "2025-11-25",
      "category": "Contract",
      "title": "Lot 12 ordered",
      "text": "15 aircraft; MSAR reports $2.46993734775bn action and obligation.",
      "source_id": "k16",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t12",
      "date": "2026-03",
      "category": "Delivery",
      "title": "eRVS fleet installation completed",
      "text": "Software/firmware-only enhanced RVS completed its last three retrofits. eRVS is not the redesigned RVS 2.0.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t14",
      "date": "2026-04-02",
      "category": "Contract",
      "title": "BTAR funding increased",
      "text": "MSAR records $12m in additional value and obligations for redesign overrun funding.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t13",
      "date": "2026-04-03",
      "category": "Delivery",
      "title": "105th aircraft reported",
      "text": "An AMC release reports the 105th US aircraft; the MSAR separately totals four development and 101 procurement deliveries.",
      "source_id": "k06",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t15",
      "date": "2026-05-12",
      "category": "Decision",
      "title": "Readiness and retrofit plan announced",
      "text": "Plan repurposes five early-build aircraft, accelerates fleet retrofit and pursues temporary logistics support; projected gains are not measured results.",
      "source_id": "k10",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t16",
      "date": "2026-06-03",
      "category": "Test",
      "title": "Company reports initial RVS 2.0 test phase complete",
      "text": "Modified test-aircraft milestone; certification, operational test and fleet fielding are separate.",
      "source_id": "k11",
      "status": "actual"
    },
    {
      "id": "t17",
      "date": "Q4 CY2027",
      "category": "Delivery",
      "title": "WARP delivery target",
      "text": "Reviewed MSAR target for final-configured pod shipsets; not an achieved RAA date.",
      "source_id": "k01",
      "status": "forecast"
    },
    {
      "id": "t18",
      "date": "Early 2028",
      "category": "Delivery",
      "title": "RVS 2.0 fielding target",
      "text": "Later Air Force announcement schedules fielding to begin in early 2028.",
      "source_id": "k10",
      "status": "forecast"
    }
  ],
  "outcomes": [
    {
      "label": "Actual US deliveries",
      "date": "2026-04",
      "result": "105 reported: four development plus 101 procurement aircraft.",
      "limit": "Not a September total, combat-ready tally, or 105 aircraft meeting every final requirement.",
      "source_id": "k01"
    },
    {
      "label": "Deployment clearance and combat task",
      "date": "2022-09",
      "result": "Worldwide deployment approval and actual operationally tasked F-15E refueling reported by AMC.",
      "limit": "Does not remove the receiver/environment/configuration restrictions later recorded by DOT&E.",
      "source_id": "k09"
    },
    {
      "label": "Initial operational capability",
      "date": "2024-10-04",
      "result": "AMC declared IOC on December 23, effective October 4.",
      "limit": "Different from RAA, completion of IOT&E, full-rate production and full operational capability.",
      "source_id": "k01"
    },
    {
      "label": "Receiver coverage",
      "date": "FY2025",
      "result": "DOT&E reports 26 of 27 candidate receiver types, with restrictions.",
      "limit": "Not all receivers, configurations, environments or completed final operational evaluation.",
      "source_id": "k03"
    },
    {
      "label": "Operational availability",
      "date": "2026-03",
      "result": "MSAR Ao 55.7% against 80% threshold: 24.3 percentage points lower.",
      "limit": "A dated Ao observation, not September mission-capable rate. Reporting changed January 2025.",
      "source_id": "k01"
    },
    {
      "label": "RVS 2.0 testing",
      "date": "2026-06-03",
      "result": "Boeing reports first flight-test phase complete on modified test aircraft.",
      "limit": "Company statement does not establish completed certification, fleet installation or closed Category-1 deficiencies.",
      "source_id": "k11"
    }
  ],
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "c01",
      "section": "promise",
      "statement": "Original RAA August 2017 meant a complete package; original FRP June 2017.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k02"
      ],
      "locator": "GAO-17-370 printed pp. 5,8–9, Table 2."
    },
    {
      "id": "c02",
      "section": "promise",
      "statement": "2017 and 2022 APBs preserved; current RAA/FRP table has blank forecast/actual fields.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR p. 15."
    },
    {
      "id": "c03",
      "section": "promise",
      "statement": "IOC effective October 4,2024 does not mean RAA complete; proposed APB Change4 not final in report.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01",
        "k04"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 8,11–12; GAO2026 printed p. 89."
    },
    {
      "id": "c04",
      "section": "money",
      "statement": "188 current aircraft versus179 original; up-to75 extension excluded.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01",
        "k04"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 9,26,28; GAO2026 printed p. 89."
    },
    {
      "id": "c05",
      "section": "money",
      "statement": "Original comparison uses constant2011 dollars; later baseline comparison constant2016 dollars; neither measures cash spent.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 26,28."
    },
    {
      "id": "c06",
      "section": "money",
      "statement": "Selected FY2026 enacted and FY2027 request lines retain stage/scope, not program expenditures.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k12",
        "k13"
      ],
      "locator": "P-1 printed pp. 221–222,229–230; R-1 p. 43."
    },
    {
      "id": "c07",
      "section": "contracts",
      "statement": "Original development ceiling does not cap all later scope; training value differs from initial obligation.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k02",
        "k15"
      ],
      "locator": "GAO2017 printed p. 5; ATS release second paragraph."
    },
    {
      "id": "c08",
      "section": "contracts",
      "statement": "Lot11 official announcement differs from MSAR mod/date; no double count.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k14",
        "k01"
      ],
      "locator": "Contract AIR FORCE opening; MSAR p. 44."
    },
    {
      "id": "c09",
      "section": "contracts",
      "statement": "Lot12 exact action/obligation is $2,469,937,347.75 and buys15 aircraft.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01",
        "k16"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR p. 44; Boeing dated opening."
    },
    {
      "id": "c10",
      "section": "contracts",
      "statement": "BTAR later cost-plus effort has April2,2026 $12m overrun funding action.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 38–39."
    },
    {
      "id": "c11",
      "section": "outcomes",
      "statement": "105 delivered as ofApril2026, four development plus101 procurement, not current inventory.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01",
        "k06"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 10,50; AMC opening delivery paragraphs."
    },
    {
      "id": "c12",
      "section": "outcomes",
      "statement": "55.7% March2026 Ao versus80% threshold; mission-capability reporting changed January2025.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01",
        "k05"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR p. 17; GAO sustainment metrics section."
    },
    {
      "id": "c13",
      "section": "outcomes",
      "statement": "26 of27 candidate receiver types with restrictions;85% planned IOT&E flight data collected.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k03"
      ],
      "locator": "DOT&E printed p. 237."
    },
    {
      "id": "c14",
      "section": "outcomes",
      "statement": "Deployments and combat-tasked refueling are actual reported results, not full deficiency closure.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k09",
        "k03"
      ],
      "locator": "AMC September2022 release; DOT&E printed p. 237."
    },
    {
      "id": "c15",
      "section": "outcomes",
      "statement": "A-10 prohibition, boom stiffness and RVS defects persist in reviewed MSAR.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 9,19."
    },
    {
      "id": "c16",
      "section": "limits",
      "statement": "RVS2.0 2023 original fielding goal; late2027 capability release versus early2028 fielding; later phase test is not certification.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k08",
        "k01",
        "k10",
        "k11"
      ],
      "locator": "2020 MOA; MSAR p. 9; May2026 Accelerating Retrofits; Boeing June3 opening."
    },
    {
      "id": "c17",
      "section": "limits",
      "statement": "WARP demonstrations and delivered final production configuration differ.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 10,23–24,50."
    },
    {
      "id": "c18",
      "section": "limits",
      "statement": "Zero-filled inventory and100% appropriation summary not accepted as actual inventory or reconciled budget ledger.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 50–51; funding comparison pp. 26,63."
    },
    {
      "id": "c19",
      "section": "limits",
      "statement": "Cover and contract reporting dates differ; exact October IOT&E date is inconsistent.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k01"
      ],
      "locator": "MSAR pp. 1,15,44,47."
    },
    {
      "id": "c20",
      "section": "limits",
      "statement": "Specific historical annual availability/mission-capable rates omitted from GAO public version.",
      "source_ids": [
        "k05"
      ],
      "locator": "GAO sustainment availability/capability standards subsection."
    }
  ]
}