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champi escribió:En EEUU acaban de publicar esto sobre el programa KC-Y: https://sam.gov/opp/0c9b409141d545ee88c ... ef818/view


Parece que a pesar de todo sigue vivo...

Que no veo la linea donde pone que el fabricante debe empezar por BOEIN y acabar en G, y tener solo 6 letras...

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AAR FoS is an evolutionary approach to add new capability to the current tanker fleet (KC-46A/KC-135R/T), while developing the overall requirements for a new tanker aircraft. The FoS process provides the Air Force a dual-path approach to most effectively implement solutions that improve tanker fleet operations.
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Current and future tankers will be required to effectively command, control, and communicate globally, navigate accurately in degraded environments, and perform at a high operations tempo in contested environments. These FoS capabilities should provide connectivity: resilient line of sight (LOS) and beyond line of sight (BLOS) airborne connectivity with the future Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) environment; open architecture design, federated systems & data streams; and alternate positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) options. These FoS capabilities should be threat informed to enhance survivability and mission effectiveness: increased situational awareness that enhances situational understanding, on-board electronic warfare (EW)/electronic attack (EA) and provide interoperability with off-board Autonomous Collaborative Platforms. These FoS capabilities should provide tankers agility: facilitating/expediting quick-turn operations, improved fuel efficiency, improved maintenance procedures, improved airfield access, reduced maintenance and logistics support requirements.
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The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a $23,229,962 firm-fixed-price delivery order (SPRPA1-22-F-0LB8) against a 15-year basic ordering agreement (SPRPA1-14-D-002U) in support of the KC-46 program. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), as stated in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1. This is an 18-month contract with no option periods. The performance completion date is March 30, 2024. Using military service is Air Force. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2022 through 2023 defense working capital funds. The contracting activity is the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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The Boeing Co., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has been awarded a $14,508,653 contract modification (P00024) for Option Year Six to previously awarded contract FA8105-16-D-0002 for KC-135 engineering sustainment services. The contract modification provides for recurring engineering services for sustainment of the KC-135 aircraft for one option year. Work will be performed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; San Antonio, Texas; Huntsville, Alabama; and Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2023. Fiscal 2022 Air Force operations and maintenance funds are being obligated at the time of award. Total cumulative face value of the contract is estimated at $129,092,865. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the contracting activity (FA8105-16-D-0002).
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Orel escribió:Canadá prepara la compra de otros 4 MRTT, para sumar a los 2 ya contratados:
https://www.infodefensa.com/texto-diari ... -a330-mrtt

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The road for the evolution of the A330 MRTT does not stop here. Airbus, through its subsidiary Airbus UpNext, has launched Auto’Mate, a demonstrator that will develop, adapt, mature, integrate and evaluate technologies enabling Autonomous Assets Air-to-Air Refuelling (A4R) and Autonomous Formation Flight (AF2) operations. Auto’Mate will focus on automating the receiver aircraft’s tasks, which requires a set of new technologies that are the pillars of the UpNext Auto’Mate demonstrator.

These technological bricks will be tested in flight during 2023 with a final end-to-end demonstration mid-2024, using in both cases an A310 as the Tanker Refuelling Flight Test Bed and DT-25 Target Drones as receiver aircraft. The set of technologies developed in the Airbus Auto’Mate demonstrator will enable a disruptive step forward in the autonomy level of current Air-to-Air Refuelling (AAR) operations, to reduce crew fatigue and training costs, improve safety and efficiency, and pioneer Unmanned Air-to-Air Refuelling operations (including Unmanned-to-Unmanned AAR operations), a highly demanded capability for future defence scenarios. Auto´Mate is the first UpNext demonstrator to be launched, developed and concluded in Spain.
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