The Air Force recently awarded Northrop Grumman a contract modification worth up to $140 million to operate and sustain Battlefield Airborne Communication Node payloads, despite an original plan to give the company a four-year follow-on contract that will now be renegotiated. Northrop already maintains BACN payloads for four E-11A modified Bombardier business jets and three EQ-4B modified Global Hawks. The updated contract will call for upgrading software as well as providing spares and repair parts for the payload and ground...
