:

Air Force

USAF Eyes Sustainment Contract for BACN Aircraft

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

SHARE:

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…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]