Raytheon will provide the US Air Force with the protype and design of an updated ‘space fence’. The contract is a $30 million phase A system design scheduled for completion by 2015. The defense system will use S-band radar and have the ability to detect small debris and satellites orbiting the earth.
As explained by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems’ national and theater security programs vice president  Pete Franklin,  “Space Fence is the future of space situational awareness. This sensor will have the capability to detect and track very small objects in low Earth orbit.”
When Jen Sovada realized she could make more of an impact on the outside of the military looking in, she retired from the U.S. Air Force. Now, her company, the fast-growing startup SandboxAQ, regularly does business with the USAF and Sovada still gets to support the mission, circumnavigating the oft-labyrinthine bureaucracy of the government. Sovada
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) rotary and mission systems division has secured a $157 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the enterprise management software of the service branch’s air-launched cruise missile system. The contractor will perform sustainment and modernization of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile enterprise management software, build operational real-time combat analysis
KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) government services business unit has secured a potential five-year, $99 million contract to help the Air Force Space Vehicles Directorate transition and integrate space domain awareness, battle management command and control and space enterprise capabilities. The Air Force Research Laboratory received one bid for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive acquisition, the