Amazing work once again anon. Top shelf.
Caret, Boeing's top defence official.
"Boeing’s Caret vows delivery of 18 KC-46s, and wing aerial refuelling pods, in 2018"
http://www.janes.com/article/79795/boeing-s-caret-vows-delivery-of-18-kc-46s-and-wing-aerial-refuelling-pods-in-2018
From the Latin caret (“it lacks”), the third-person singular present active indicative … to indicate that something is to be inserted in the place marked by the caret.