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.…