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Air Mobility Command Examining Need for Automated, Beyond Line of Sight Communications

Air Mobility Command Examining Need for Automated, Beyond Line of Sight Communications
An airdropped Palletized Munition Deployment System carrying JASSM-ER simulants. The photo shows one of the JASSM-ER simulants in the Deployment Box immediately after being airdropped from an EC-130SJ (Photo on Air Force Materiel Command web page)

The Air Force's Air Mobility Command (AMC) is examining the need for automated, beyond line of sight (BLOS) communications for its fleet of aircraft to fit into the Pentagon's planned Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) architecture. AMC is "seeking information from interested companies to provide an operationally effective, affordable, resilient, and secure Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) Integrator/Manager/Controller [IMCs] for AMC’s fleet of C-5, C-17, C-130, KC-135, and KC-46 aircraft," per an Oct. 1 AMC request for information…

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