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USAF Eyes Sustainment Contract for BACN Aircraft

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

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USAF Eyes Sustainment Contract for BACN Aircraft

Pictured are two U.S. Air Force E-11A aircraft pilots with the 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron at a site in U.S. Central Command on May 7 last year (U.S. Air Force Photo)

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…

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