The Air Reserve Component's Impact on Modernizing Legacy Aircraft to Complement the Advanced Battle Management System: KC-135 RTIC and the Gladiator Pod

Abstract

This research project explores the ARC and AMC collaborative efforts to rapidly prototype, field, and fund KC-135 RTIC and HVAA Gladiator pods. With the need for rapid prototyping and rapid fielding to compete against China's technological wave, this study focuses on the ARC's impact on modernizing the KC-135 with RTIC and pods to complement the ABMS. Through content analysis methodology and NVivo software, interviews from subject-matter-experts and literature review were analyzed for themes and sentiment relating to the ARC, AMC, NGREA, KC-135, RTIC, and HVAA Gladiator pods.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1151632

Entities

People

  • David Rodriguez

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air National Guard
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Data Links
  • Department Of Defense
  • Logistics
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Software Development
  • Software Prototyping
  • Students
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Warfare

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