SwRI awarded $12 million US Air Force contract for B-1B system redesign

(Southwest Research Institute) The USAF awarded SwRI a $12 million contract to redesign a critical B-1B Lancer system to help extend the aircraft's service life. The B-1B is a long-range, supersonic bomber, which has served the Air Force since 1986. SwRI engineers will redesign the aircraft's Fuel Center of Gravity Management System (FCGMS), which tracks fuel data and usage, controls fuel transfer to the aircraft's four turbine engines and calculates corrections to the bomber's center of gravity as fuel is depleted.
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