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Electronic Warfare Interoperability PDR for B-52 Radar Modernization Program Upcoming

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, October 29th, 2020

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Electronic Warfare Interoperability PDR for B-52 Radar Modernization Program Upcoming

A B-52 Stratofortress with the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron sits on the flightline at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Nov. 19, 2019. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

While Boeing [BA] officials said that they've had to conduct in-person meetings on the classified part of the B-52 Radar Modernization Program (RMP), they finished a three-day preliminary design review (PDR) of RMP via Cisco's [CSCO] WebEx last week with 250 people, as the program looks forward to an RMP electronic warfare (EW) interoperability PDR in December. "We got positive [PDR] feedback from the government, and we have some actions to work through, and we'll probably get those cleaned up…

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