The Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill AFB, Utah, has joined forces with Raytheon that will bring work on the Global Broadcast Systems software to the Utah facility, according to the Hilltop Times. The partnership agreement, reports Mitch Shaw, allows Ogden technicians to maintain GBS software, the first of “several” programs managed by the Space and Missile Systems Center at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., that the ALC expects to acquire.
The Air Force on March 12 awarded contract modifications worth a combined $2.4 billion to Boeing to procure an undisclosed number of E-7 Wedgetail as part of the program's engineering and manufacturing development phase and continue work on the airborne battle management aircraft’s radar.