Fiscal year 2016 testing on one of the Air Force's key surveillance platforms revealed "difficulty in combining various on- and off-board sensor data into a coherent single track on a consistent basis," according to the director of operational test and evaluation's annual report to Congress published Jan. 10. Three weeks of cybersecurity tests also showed the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System Block 40/45 upgrade and its ground systems are "highly vulnerable to cyber threats and not survivable," among other...
