TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 10, 2017 ” The Defense Science Board has selected William LaPlante, vice president of Mitre‘s intelligence business, to co-chair a task force on software design and procurement for defense systems, GovCon Executive reported Monday. Mitre said Friday LaPlante will help lead the task force that will evaluat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 6, 2017 ” The U.S. Air Force has awarded a General Atomics‘ business unit a two-year, $56.7 million order to add new units to Spain’s fleet of MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will provide MQ-9 aircraft and associated equ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 5, 2017 ” The U.S Air Force has awarded a $9.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee-contract to Sotera Defense Solutions to develop a predictive analysis software prototype, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company will serve as the architect and integrator of the software prototype and provide systems that support&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 4, 2017 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received a $34.4 million firm-fixed-price contract for consulting services to support the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to update its Microsoft products. The company will develop new enterprise capacities for the Air Force Network to help address the milita...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded M1 Support Services a one-year, $90.4 million contract modification to provide backshop, flight maintenance services for 140 aircraft at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. M1 will also support various aircraft systems such as egress, fuel system, hydraulics, aerospace ground equipment, armament avionics, electronic warfa...
Donald Wetekam, vice president of government and defense business development at AAR‘s aviation services sector, and Jeffrey Wehrenberg, previously chief operating officer at the company’s airlift division, have been appointed to lead AAR Airlift. The company said Thursday Wetekam and Wehrenberg will report to John Ho...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a General Atomics subsidiary a $349.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide support services for the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial systems. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will deliver program, configuration and inventory control point management, as well as depot...
Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) subsidiary, has received a $313.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to help maintain F119-PW-100 engines. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers necessary parts for engine sustainment. Work will occur in Connecticut, ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $143.4 million contract modification from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply consumable items for various aircraft in support of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and foreign military sales customers. The Defense Department said Thursday the performance-based award is a modification to a previously aw...
Twelve companies have received contract modifications worth $800 million in total to continue to offer information technology application services to the U.S. Air Force via the Network-Centric Solutions-2 vehicle. The Air Force first announced the 12 small business awardees on the potential $960 million NETCENTS-2 indefinite...
