The Air Force is preparing to embark on a five-year or more effort mandated by Congress to explore the merits of using commercial tankers on a fee-for-service basis to augment its own aerial refueling fleet, a senior service general said last week. "We are going to do a sources sought RFI [request for information] here sometime in the near term," Lt. Gen. Donald Hoffman, the top uniformed officer in the Air Force's acquisition shop, told reporters Feb. 15 during a…
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