Problems continue to slow AWACS upgrade process; wing staffs study BMC2

By Rachel Cohen / December 7, 2017 at 4:51 PM
The E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System program office and Boeing are still working through myriad technical problems discovered in the fleet's Block 40/45 overhaul, though more than 12 aircraft have already been upgraded, according to the colonel who oversees the fleet at Tinker Air Force Base, OK. Col. Geoffrey Weiss, 552nd Air Control Wing commander, said in a Nov. 20 interview he hopes multiple category 1 deficiencies, which he would not detail, will be fixed by 2020. "We've come...

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