Enhancing positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) for BACN command and control

摘要

Military communications experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. are providing satellite navigation capabilities for a major airborne battlefield communications system to enhance the system's positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). Officials of the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., have announced an $80.2 million order to the Northrop Grumman Corp. Mission Systems segment in Middle River, Md., to provide military Global Positioning System (GPS) for the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) aboard the Air Force Bombardier E-11A com-mand-and-control aircraft.