The involvement of Confed forces in the same sort of helping-out role as they had in UE1 is definitely not out of the question. But in such a situation, you wouldn't be the one flying the Devastator or whatever ship.
I was meaning as an escort role. Maybe something for a final mission to take down an enemy fleet escorting some Confed bombers with a few vampires or panthers helping.
Confed would certainly not trust state-of-the-art bombers in the hands of pilots who have never even flown a sim in a confed craft of this power or type.