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With Joint STARS Retirement in FY ’24, USAF Plans to Use Other ISR Platforms for GMTI Coverage

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With Joint STARS Retirement in FY ’24, USAF Plans to Use Other ISR Platforms for GMTI Coverage
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Dalancy Brandford, an airborne target surveillance supervisor with the 138th Military Intelligence Company, Army JSTARS, prepares for a historic flight aboard an E-8C Joint STARS at Robins AFB, Ga., Feb. 19, 2021. A crew of 33 E-8C Joint STARS aviators made history when the first all-African American JSTARS flight crew flew from Robins on a training mission to commemorate Black History Month. (U.S. Air National Guard Photo)

The U.S. Air Force 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 fiscal 2024--and to use other intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets to fill in for the loss of Joint STARS. "We continue to operate multiple ISR platforms with GMTI capability and plan to do so across the duration of the coverage reduction caused by JSTARS retirement," the…

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