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Northrop to Continue AF Battlefield Airborne Comm Node Support; Jeannie Hilger Comments


Jeannie Hilger
Jeannie Hilger

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded an $89.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to extend the company’s support for the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node system that the service uses in overseas contingency operations.

“BACN is making such a tremendous difference for our warfighters that it is regarded as indispensable for mission success, ” Jeannie Hilger, vice president and general manager of the communications division at Northrop Grumman Information Systems, said Wednesday.

The BACN information gateway is designed to transmits voice, video and images to bolster battlefield situational awareness and coordination between airborne and ground-based warfighters. Northrop said the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts awarded the company with the first BACN contract in 2005.

The forces have since deployed three BACN EQ-4B Global Hawk and four BACN E-11A systems for Operation Enduring Freedom, the company added.

Northrop plans to deliver BACN as part of the Joint Aerial Layer Network for communications and network connectivity in the battlefield across space, ground and airborne military forces.

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