A new acquisition strategy and baseline for the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System Block 40/45 upgrade program will be completed later this summer, an Air Force spokesman recently told Inside Defense. "The FY-19 [president's budget] restored funding to the AWACS Block 40/45 program, enabling the Air Force to buy back seven additional Block 40/45 upgrades and increasing the total program to 31 aircraft," service spokesman Ben Newell said in a June 28 email. "The program office notified the...
