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USAF Looking Into Spares For AWACS DRAGON Program

USAF Looking Into Spares For AWACS DRAGON Program
Pictured is a U.S. Air Force photo of an E-3 Sentry aircraft before taking off from Tinker AFB, Okla. on Apr. 6, 2023 on its way to the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. as the first AWACS to retire.

The U.S. Air Force is looking into a buy of spare parts for the service's Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations and Navigation (DRAGON) program for Boeing [BA] E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. Boeing is the contractor on DRAGON, a nearly decade-long $1 billion effort by the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker AFB, Okla. to upgrade AWACS cockpits. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) is asking companies able to provide such…

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