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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron grounds communication technicians Airman 1st Class Trevor Anderson, Senior Airman Seth Oatridge, Airman 1st Class Michael Ha, and Airman 1st Class Brandon Stockham pose for a group photo in front of their communication satellite, Feb. 17, 2019 at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates.380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron grounds communication technicians Airman 1st Class Trevor Anderson, Senior Airman Seth Oatridge, Airman 1st Class Michael Ha, and Airman 1st Class Brandon Stockham pose for a group photo in front of their communication satelliteat Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 17, 2019. These members were responsible for keeping the Beyond Line of Sight technology operational. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady)
                
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        An RQ-4 Global Hawk sits in a hangar Feb. 17, 2019 at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates.An MQ-4 Global Hawk sits in a hangar at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 17, 2019. ADAB controled this aircraft even when it’s away from the base or as the name of this technology implies, Beyond Line of Sight. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady)
                
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EQ-4 Global Hawk Controlled‘Beyond Line of Sight’Published Feb. 27, 2019
                    
                    By  Tech. Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady
                    
                    
                    380th AEW/PA
            **AL DHAFRA AIR BASE, United Arab Emirates (AFNS) --**One of the assets flying missions from Al Dhafra Air Base, is the EQ-4 Global Hawk. This remotely piloted aircraft previously required coordination with other bases to control it while in the air. Now by utilizing technology this process can be conducted locally.
ADAB can control this aircraft even when it’s away from the base or as the name of this technology implies, “Beyond Line of Sight”.
“The BLOS plays a major role because it allows us to fly the jet farther than any Launch and Recovery Element could ever before, utilizing Satellite communication as its main link rather than a Line Of Sight link,” said Senior Airman Seth Oatridge, 380th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron ground communication technician. 
With a 24/7 mission requiring a bird to always be in the sky, EQ-4 pilots and maintainers can plan, launch and execute missions locally without relying on other bases.  
“With everything being handled in house from all maintenance to the satellite communication work, it has drastically reduced the time it took us to ‘Scramble the Hawks’,” said Oatridge.
The members responsible for keeping this technology operation are the Hawk Aircraft Maintenance Unit ground communication technicians. The BLOS was implemented here in September 2018 and this crew of satellite communication troops and cyber systems operations work to make sure everything is operational.
“Anything that goes wrong with the equipment, we fix it,” said Senior Airman Michael Ha, 380th EAMXS grounds communication technician. “Our main mission here is to provide that communication to our ground troops and the BLOS allows this. Without us, they wouldn’t be able to keep the links up and communicate with ground troops leading to a mission failure.”
Thanks to the combined efforts between the Hawk AMU maintainers and the pilots of the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, they can now locally conduct various missions without having to reach back stateside for support.innovation 



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