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Number of Options Eyed for Boeing KC-46 Tanker Role in ABMS, Company Says

Frank Wolfe

Friday, February 19th, 2021

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Number of Options Eyed for Boeing KC-46 Tanker Role in ABMS, Company Says

A KC-46A Pegasus lands at Pease Air National Guard Base, N.H., on Feb. 5. The aircraft, the 12th KC-46 received by the base, completes the 157th Air Refueling Wing’s fleet of future tankers (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Boeing [BA] said that it is examining a number of options to make its KC-46 Pegasus refueling tanker a flying cell tower for the U.S. Air Force in the fielding of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS), the service's component of Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2)--a DoD effort to build a cross-service digital architecture for multi-domain operations–in effect, a military Internet of Things with machine-to-machine interfaces. "When it comes to KC-46 and where we see the future, we…

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