TACAMO (Take Charge And Move Out) is a United States military system of survivable communications links designed to be used in nuclear warfare to maintain communications between the decision-makers (the National Command Authority) and the triad of strategic nuclear weapon delivery systems.

Dec 18, 2024 · WASHINGTON — The Navy today awarded a $3.5 billion contract to Northrop Grumman to be the mission systems integrator for Navy’s next-generation plane for commanding nuclear-armed forces in an...

Oct 21, 2024 · The E-130J – previously called the E-XX while awaiting naming – will relieve the Navy’s E-6B Mercury fleet of the TACAMO mission, which connects the president, secretary of defense and U.S....

Northrop Grumman has been selected as the prime contractor to deliver nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) aircraft for the U.S. Navy's Take Charge And Move Out (TACAMO) mission. The Northrop Grumman-led industry team will deliver the E-130J to relieve the U.S. Navy's current E-6B Mercury fleet of the TACAMO mission.

Support the TACAMO ("Take Charge and Move Out") mission providing airborne communications links to strategic forces. The TACAMO mission began in 1961 as a test program to determine if an...

Apr 5, 2022 · The first-generation Hercules-based TACAMO aircraft, the EC-130Q., U.S. Navy. Despite the EC-130J having previously served as a TACAMO platform, the decision to replace the four-jet E-6B, some of the last Boeing 707 airliner derivatives built, with a turboprop platform was in some ways surprising.

Dec 19, 2024 · Northrop Grumman has released a new rendering of the U.S. Navy’s future E-130J aircraft to support the Take Charge And Move Out (TACAMO) mission. TACAMO is a critical component of America’s deterrent posture and involves providing airborne command and control support for nuclear ballistic missile submarines , including being able to send ...

Oct 22, 2024 · PMA-271 is procuring the E-130J through the TACAMO Recapitalization Program, whose most likely candidate was already considered to be the Super Hercules. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk...

Jan 2, 2025 · The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a $3.5 billion contract to develop and integrate mission systems for the E-130J, a next-generation airborne communication aircraft designed to replace the E-6B Mercury in the critical Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) role.

What is TACAMO? There are several means of communicating between conventional and nuclear weapons assets. There are satellite, landline, radio, cellphones and other commercial communications.