The Aerospace Alliance KC-45 Tanker Task Force
The United States Air Force is seeking to replace its aging aerial refueling tanker fleet. The EADS team is vying for the contract with their KC-45 tanker, which would be built in Mobile, Alabama. The first priority of The Aerospace Alliance is to work to secure the KC-45 as the answer to the Air Force aerial tanker replacement program. The Aerospace Alliance will identify, educate, organize and activate allies to aggressively communicate why the KC-45 is the
best solution: for the warfighter and the taxpayer, and thus for the United States. With the tanker, the region would be one of the largest in the world to build large-body aircraft.
The Plane Truth About the KC-45 Tanker
The EADS aerial refueling tanker will be built for the U.S. Air Force by the same highly experienced workforce that sent the first men to the moon. This is a U.S. aerospace workforce anchored in the South where generations of defense workers have provided high-tech naval ships, planes, munitions and countless other assets for U.S. warfighters.
Selection of the KC-45 tanker will lead to more jobs being added to the U.S. commercial and military industrial base, and those jobs will provide a major economic 
stimulus for The Aerospace Alliance, a major center for manufacturing and assembly of highly complex defense and space systems.
The KC-45 Tanker will bring an estimated 48,000 direct and indirect jobs to the U.S., many of them in the Gulf Coast region. It would also significantly enhance the development of The Aerospace Alliance region of northwest Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, making it more attractive to other aircraft manufacturers.
In fact, if the EADS team wins the tanker
contract, EADS would take advantage of a new production line to also build commercial freighters. Mobile, Alabama, would be home to the first large commercial aircraft assembly facility built in the U.S. in more than forty years.
This new facility will become a major global center of aerospace excellence and key element in sustaining our dominance on the world aviation stage.
Creating U.S. Jobs to Build America’s Tanker
- With a supplier base of more than 230 companies, the KC-45 tanker bid will expand the U.S.A.’s workforce more than the competition’s bid, creating 48,000 direct and indirect jobs in all 50 states.
- The KC-45’s overall impact throughout the South will be the creation of more than 13,000 jobs, a significant expansion of The Aerospace Alliance.
- More than 4,500 new jobs will go to Alabama and more than 1,600 to Florida.
