Data Computer Corp. of America has won a potential five-year, $80 million task order to update the U.S. Air Force’s main mission communication system to an Internet protocol v6 network as part of the Western Range Modernization Network initiative. The service branch received three bids for the program through a competitive procuremen...
Congress could review the U.S. Air Force‘s and the Defense Department‘s independent cost estimates for the Long Range Strike Bomber program after the legislative branch’s research arm found Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) winning bid to be “substantially below” those projections,  Bloomberg reported Thursd...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded an 18-month, $138.8 million “bridge contract” to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to support DLA’s efforts to deliver spare parts and industrial hardware to U.S. Air Force logistics centers. Lockheed will provide supply chain management and logistical services in sup...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has been awarded a $275 million contract with the U.S. Air Force to study and engineer ground-based space systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will also transition the resulting technology to support the Air Force’s operations. Boeing will perform research, engineering, program management and technica...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies (NYSE: BLL) and SiCore Technologies have each won a $47.9 million contract to develop risk mitigation tools and techniques for the U.S. Air Force™s weapon systems. The goal is to identify vulnerabilities in the Air Force™s avionics and protect the systems from cyber attacks, the Defense Department sai...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $1.5 billion contract modification to fund the procurement of C-130J aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract represents full funding for the procurement of long-lead items the Air Force ordered along with 28 fiscal 2016 C-130J. The covered aircraft are&nb...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) have secured contracts worth $130.3 million combined to help reduce radar risks for the U.S. Air Force‘s Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System Recapitalization program. The service branch awarded $70.3 million to Northrop’s systems business and $60 mil...
RAND Corp. has received a potential five-year, $231.3 million contract to provide consulting support services to the U.S. Air Force through the Project Air Force federally funded research and development center. The RAND-operated FFRDC will perform research and analyses that seek to address the service branch’s space, cyber and aerial requirem...
Raytheon has landed a $573 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles production and system items. The award will exercise options for lot 30 of AMRAAM and related items, Defense Department said Wednesday. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Air Dominance Contracting Office w...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $573 million contract modification to produce additional Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles for the U.S. Air Force. The award exercises options for lot 30 of AMRAAM and related items, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Raytheon will manufacture the missiles in Tucson, Arizona, through Feb. 28, 2019...
