Boom/Receptacle Components & Verification Methods
Addresses boom and receptacle interfaces, components, performance and verification practices.
Joint Standardization Board
Technical expertise translated into practical guidance.
Seven concurrent working groups bring together the people who design, operate, maintain and approve aerial refueling systems.
Seven dedicated groups
Focused collaboration across the refueling system.
Probe/Drogue Components & Verification Methods
Advances probe-and-drogue compatibility, component performance and verification methods.
Formation Aids, Markings and Lighting
Improves the visual systems, markings and lighting that support safe rendezvous and refueling.
Maintenance and Ground Support Equipment
Focuses on maintenance, sustainment and the ground equipment needed to support reliable operations.
Clearance Processes and Procedures
Develops orderly clearance processes, interface-data standards and compatibility assessment guidance.
Systems Requirements & Verification Methods
Aligns shared system requirements with meaningful, repeatable verification methods.
Automated Aerial Refueling
Examines emerging automation and the standards required for future interoperable capability.
Clearance challenge
A multinational requirement.
Coalition operations require technical and operational compatibility, efficient training, manageable maintenance and workable fiscal and legal arrangements between tanker and receiver operators.
Standardized Technical Data Survey
ARSAG’s clearance work defines minimum interface data and coordinates the overall clearance process. The STDS collects the information needed to demonstrate compatibility and support tanker/receiver clearance assessments.
Future direction