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Department of the Air Force Plans to Finish Future GMTI Force Design This Year

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022

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Department of the Air Force Plans to Finish Future GMTI Force Design This Year

An RQ-4 Block 40 Global Hawk gets all pre-flight checks accomplished from maintenance technicians before a mission while deployed Nov. 23, 2010, at an air base in Southwest Asia (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Department of the Air Force is to complete a force design for future ground moving target indication (GMTI) using a possible mix of space and air assets this year in advance of the fiscal 2024 budget submission. The Department of the Air Force's fiscal 2023 budget indicates that the department plans to retire its 12 remaining Northrop Grumman [NOC] E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System(Joint STARS) ground moving target indication (GMTI) planes–eight in fiscal 2023 and four in…

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