
The U.S. Air Force plans to field its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) on the first Boeing [BA] KC-46 Pegasus tankers by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022 and would like to make all planned 179 KC46s communications nodes in ABMS. "Ideally, we need every one of our aircraft equipped to handle this," Air Force Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson, the deputy commander of Air Mobility Command (AMC), told the Defense News Pathfinders virtual forum on June 9. "I realize the…