The Air Force has agreed to pay Boeing $14 million over five years to provide communications and network systems expertise for unmanned aerial vehicles, according to a company statement. The support includes developing crew training requirements, coordinating communications, establishing air space policies, and providing worldwide platform basing.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
