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C-17 workload to bring new jobs

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  • By Wayne Crenshaw
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An Air Force decision to make Robins the full program manager for the C-17 will add more than 300 new jobs here in the coming years.

Robins will house an integrated program office of Boeing and Air Force employees which will eventually have 529 personnel, said Kim Lynn, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center plans and programs director. Boeing currently has 31 people here working with 143 government personnel.

The first new employees - about 60 - will be here in about a month. After that, there will be a steady build up through 2017, as Robins takes on more of the system's program management from Boeing. Boeing is transferring a number of people, including vice president Gus Urzua, from its Long Beach, Calif., location as part of the effort.

The Air Force's current contract with Boeing, which expires this year, gives the company significant program-management control.

The Air Force projects that over the next 30 years, the new arrangement - which includes an increase by the Air Force in C-17 sustainment responsibilities - will save the service at least $9 billion.