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Boeing CEO Says Musk Helping Speed Tardy Air Force One Jets

Air Force One on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, DC.

Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Bloomberg
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Boeing Co.’s chief executive officer said Elon Musk and his DOGE team are helping the planemaker work through bottlenecks that have caused the next fleet of Air Force One jets to fall years behind schedule.

“He’s able to pretty quickly ascertain the difference between technical requirements and things that we can move out of the way,” Kelly Ortberg, Boeing’s CEO, said of Musk during a Barclays conference on Thursday.