Not sure what the last bit means in English.....
http://www.defensenews.com/air/2018/...t-to-continue/
US Air Force cancels remaining light-attack experiment flights, but effort will continue
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force will not conclude the flying portion of its light-attack experiment after a June 22 aircraft crash resulted in
the death of a pilot, a senior official announced Tuesday. However, Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, the Air Force’s top uniformed acquisition official, stressed that
the experiment is not over and that — should service leaders decide to
move forward with a program of record — its acquisition wing will be ready to initiate a competition for a new plane by the end of this year.
The Air Force is “working multiple fronts so that we can put an RFP [request for proposals] out” by December, Bunch said. “So right now, we’re still progressing down that path. I’ve not pulled back on the throttle on any way, shape or form in that area right now.”.......
To complete the experiment, the Air Force will gather further logistics and sustainment information from the contractors. It also plans to test a new exportable, commercial off-the-shelf network onboard surrogate aircraft to further prove out that capability.
“We got quite a bit of experimentation done in that area, we demonstrated that we could utilize it on those platforms,” he said. “Now what we’ll do is we’ll transition that onto some surrogate aircraft. We believe that is easily doable where we can collect the data off those and it will be applicable for what we’re trying to do with the light attack and coming up with an exportable network.”......