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Air Force

Air Force Extends Northrop Grumman’s Work On Air Communications Node

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

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The Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] two contract modifications to continue operating and maintaining an airborne communications and information system for situational awareness and command and control, the company said yesterday. The modifications worth a combined $156 million call on Northrop Grumman to keep running the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) systems on three E-11A Bombardier Global Express BD-700 aircraft and three EQ-4B Block 20 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles. That covers the work on the overseas operations…

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