Air Force command-and-control study will inform AWACS roadmap

By Courtney Albon / February 27, 2017 at 1:58 PM
An ongoing, enterprise look at the Air Force's multidomain command-and-control capabilities will likely inform the service's path to replace its E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System with what could be a more disaggregated, networked architecture. The service last summer wrapped up its first Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team -- a developmental planning and experimentation effort that looked at options for maintaining air superiority in 2030 and beyond. That study predicted that the current AWACS fleet would not be survivable against future...

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