The Air Force is looking for ways to use electric aircraft for everything from shuttling cargo and passengers around a base to evacuating downed airmen.
The C-130H's avionics modernization will replace its old analog gauges with digital displays, as well as an array of other navigation and flight upgrades.
Beta Technologies, which developed the fast charger now being built at Duke Field, will deliver its first ALIA electric aircraft to the Air Force in fall.