The E-11A is a modified Bombardier Global Express 6000/BD-700-1A10 business jet equipped with specialized communications relay equipment to translate between tactical comm and data links. It provides joint range extension, BLOS C2, and Internet protocol-based data transfer between dissimilar systems. E-11A was fielded to meet an urgent operational need for BLOS relay between ground troops and...
The E-3 Sentry is an airborne warning and control system, or AWACS, aircraft with an integrated command and control battle management, or C2BM, surveillance, target detection, and tracking platform. The aircraft provides an accurate, real-time picture of the battlespace to the Joint Air Operations Center. AWACS provides situational awareness of friendly, neutral and hostile activity, command...
The E-4B serves as the National Airborne Operations Center and is a key component of the National Military Command System for the President, the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In case of national emergency or destruction of ground command and control centers, the aircraft provides a highly survivable command, control and communications center to direct U.S. forces, execute...
The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, is an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform. Its primary mission is to provide theater ground and air commanders with ground surveillance to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy...
The E-9A is a twin turboprop used as a surveillance platform to ensure the Gulf of Mexico waters are clear of civilian boaters and aircraft during live missile launches and other hazardous military activities. The E-9A provides support for air-to-air weapons system evaluation, development and operational testing at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.
Assigned Unit:
82nd Aerial Targets...
Soldiers from across the country will come to Michigan to compete for the Expert Infantryman Badge, Expert Soldier Badge and Expert Field Medical Badge during the first combined E3B competition hosted in Michigan. Follow their journey as they train, test their skills and work to earn the Army’s expert-level badges.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, celebrates the early completion of the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Contract 10A, which is the 7-mile inflow/outflow canal (3,000 CFS) and 7-mile seepage canal / maintenance road (Northern Boundary of Reservoir).
The EAA is part of the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) and the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan...
U.S. forces will join Jordan in Exercise EAGER LION 16, one of U.S. Central
Command's premiere exercises, in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan during the
month of May. Exercise EAGER LION 16 will consist of a week-long series of
simulated scenarios to facilitate a coordinated partnered military response
to conventional and unconventional threats. The scenarios developed will
include border...
