Development of AWACS open system architecture to begin this year

The move to upgrade NATO and U.S. Air Force Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft with an open-system architecture will begin this year, but a retrofit program is still several years away, a USAF official said yesterday. "The NATO AWACS program is going to award a contract at the end...

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