The U.S. Navy has tapped Air Center Helicopters to provide cargo transfer services between ships deployed worldwide over a potential five-and-a-half-year period. The Burleson, Texas-headquartered airlift support provider will conduct vertical replenishment services under a $77.3 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Navy, the Department of Defe...
Kekolu Contracting has won a potential five-year, $200 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform construction work on real property at Eglin Air Force Base and related sites in Florida. The Department of Defense said Monday the Air Force Test Center at Eglin AFB launched a competitive acquisition process and received six offers...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a $400 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide airborne mission networking system kits for the service branch’s MC-130 aircraft fleet. Sierra Nevada will also perform contractor logistics support, engineering services, program management and field service representa...
Venice Goodwine, the Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer, is slated to give a keynote address at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Air Defense Summit on July 23. Learn more about the DAF CIO, her career history and her accomplishments below. Who Is Venice Goodwine? Goodwine is the Air Force CIO and a member...
Who Is Melissa Dalton? Melissa Dalton currently serves as under secretary of the Air Force, a role she assumed in May. In this position, she oversees the organizing, training and equipping of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force to aid global military operations. Dalton is a foreign policy expert and has held numerous roles...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential two-year, $189 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide Combat Air Forces Distributed Mission Operations services. The Department of Defense said Thursday the sole-source contract includes the development of a virtual environment designed to facilitate distributed training events, inclu...
In June, the Department of the Air Force launched an experimental generative AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT. The Non-classified Internet Protocol Router AI tool, dubbed NIPRGPT, can converse with Air Force personnel and assist them with certain tasks. “There are multiple modernization efforts going on right now across the federal governm...
A joint venture led by Bechtel has secured a potential one-year, $442.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to continue providing test operations and sustainment support for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee. The Department of Defense said Monday Bechtel-led National Aerospace Solutions will provide technology...
Potomac Officers Club’s yearly Air Force Summit is an essential destination for government contractors who want to know about the Department of the Air Force’s top technology priorities and modernization goals. And who better to deliver that valuable information than the service’s chief information officer, Venice Goodwine. Goodwine’s DAF ...
The State Department has cleared the requests of the governments of Norway and Denmark to buy AIM-120C-8 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles, related equipment and support services from the U.S. government through two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $2.15 billion combined. RTX (NYSE: RTX) will serve as the principal contr...
