According to USAF FY10 RDT&E budget estimates (submitted May 2009), the Objective Gateway (OG) program will be terminated in 2010. BACN was at the top of the USAF $1.9 billion list of unfunded priorities. In June 2009, Northrop Grumman was awarded $276 million toward the rapid fielding and support of the BACN system. The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) is a forward-deployed airborne communications relay and network-centric information server that allows real-time information exchanges among many military, federal, and commercial communications systems.
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