Air Warfare
Northrop Grumman brings home the BACN
Northrop Grumman is to continue its involvement with the USAF Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) programme, under a new $3.6 billion contract announced by the DoD on 21 January.
The deal covers research, development, test, and evaluation, integration, operations and sustainment for existing and future BACN payloads and associated ...
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