After a WESTPAC deployment between April and October 1995, VAW-117 and CVW-11 swapped to the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) to then deploy again in October 1996 and return home in April 1997. 1998 brought another swap for CWW-11, this time to embark aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) and deploying in support of several excursuses and Operation Desert Fox. In 1999, VAW-117 was selected to provide operational testing for the Navy's newest AEW upgrade, the MCU/ACIS (Mission Computer Upgrade/ Advance Computer Information System).
