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Tankers to Play Significant Role in ABMS Operational Fielding

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Tankers to Play Significant Role in ABMS Operational Fielding
U.S. Air Force refueling tankers are to serve as communications relays in ABMS. In this photo, tembers of Team McConnell fly a KC-46A Pegasus above another KC-46 during an extended mission in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region on Oct. 23. This was the first time the KC-46 had flown an extended self-sustained mission into the region. The crew was able to offload approximately half a million gallons of fuel to 87 aircraft during their two week mission to Andersen AFB, Guam. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

U.S. Air Force refueling tankers are to play a signficant role in the service's fielding of the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). "We have already selected ABMS Release 1, which is a subset of capabilities that make a mini Internet that gets data from clouds forward to the tactical edge, our fighters, via mobility gateways and analytics that will be fielded on our tanker fleet," Air Force Acquisition Chief Will Roper told the Air Force Association Doolittle Forum on Dec.…

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