
The U.S. Air Force may award an up to five-year contract for domestic and foreign sustainment of the service's E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communication Node (BACN) aircraft. Bombardier Global business jets, once outfitted with the Northrop Grumman [NOC] BACN military communications package, become E-11As in the Air Force inventory. In October, 2023, the Air Force picked Northrop Grumman to support BACN at Robins AFB, Ga.--what is to be the plane's first main operating base (MOB), but the service has not finalized…