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Northrop Grumman Awarded $48 Million Contract For BACN Work

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

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The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a $48.2 million contract recently as part of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) program, according to a Defense Department statement. The contract is for E-11A platform maintenance. Northrop Grumman spokeswoman Janis Lamar said recently platform maintenance includes daily maintenance, launch, recovery, servicing, and configuring and scheduling for the special BACN payload. Lamar said there are three operational E-11As and a fourth Bombardier Global 6000 has been delivered to the Air Force to…

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