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Competition Likely on Airborne Edge Node for KC-46 Tanker

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Competition Likely on Airborne Edge Node for KC-46 Tanker
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Ashley Upton, 50th Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, secures a Roll-On Beyond-Line-Of-Sight Enhancement (ROBE) in place on a KC-135 tanker in preparation for Exercise Mobility Guardian 2021 at MacDill AFB, Fla. on May, 13. ROBE, developed by Northrop Grumman in 2003, is a certified communications system for front line forces, local commanders and higher headquarters (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force is likely to release a request for proposal for the Airborne Edge Node for the Boeing [BA] KC-46 Pegasus tanker in the coming months, as it looks to award a contract and field the communications pod by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022. Of the U.S. Air Force's nearly $204 million requested funding in fiscal 2022 for the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), $147 million is for development of the Airborne Edge Node for the KC-46…

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