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USAF Looks to Industry to Aid Setting of Requirements for NGAS

Frank Wolfe

Monday, September 16th, 2024

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USAF Looks to Industry to Aid Setting of Requirements for NGAS

US Air Force insignia on an aging jet plane.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--The U.S. Air Force has projected that it will finish an Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) this fall on the Next Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) to succeed the service's Boeing [BA] KC-46 tankers, and on Friday the service released a request for information (RFI) on NGAS mission systems. Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter told reporters on Monday at the Air and Space Forces Association's Air, Space, and Cyber annual conference in National Harbor, Md., that the goal…

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