Air Force cancels Air Operations Center 10.2 contract, starts new pathfinder effort
By: Valerie Insinna, July 13, 2017
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has terminated a contract with Northrop Grumman for a network upgrade for the Air Operations Center, a key tool used by the service to plan and conduct air operations, and instead will partner with the Defense Department’s innovation unit to find a quicker way to field the update.
Thursday’s cancellation of Air Operations Center (AOC) 10.2 follows a stop-work order that was announced by the service in April, after lawmakers declined to shift money to the program to keep it going. By then, estimated development costs had ballooned from $374 million to $745 million and the program had slipped to more than three years late, Bloomberg News reported in December.
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