Five contractors will compete for task orders under a potential 11-year, $4.8 billion multiple award contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide National Air and Space Intelligence Center with capability support services. Altamira Technologies, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Modern Technology Solutions Inc., Radiance Technologies and Xandar were selecte...
John Olson, the Department of the Air Force’s first chief data and artificial intelligence officer, has been promoted to the rank of major general. Olson, who also serves as mobilization assistant to the chief of space operations, is responsible for leading efforts at the Space Force and Air Force to operationalize data and reach AI...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has received a potential one-year, $132.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to remanufacture F100 engine modules for foreign military sales customers. The sole-source modification covers F100-PW-100, F100-PW-200, F100-PW-220, F100-PW-220E, F100-PW-229 and F-100-PW-229 EEP engine modules in suppor...
In recent years, the Department of the Air Force has made significant strides in its modernization journey, but the service is still dealing with lingering issues, alongside emerging ones, as it continues to stretch its area of responsibility over two of the world’s largest, most quickly evolving domains. The DAF’s number one challenge today is...
Rolls-Royce‘s North American subsidiary has received an $854.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from Naval Air Systems Command to fix engines of tactical aircraft flown by the U.S. Marine Corps and Kuwait’s military. Under the five-year contract, Rolls-Royce will perform depot-level services to repair and maintain...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2022 — Michael Conlin, chief technology officer of Definitive Logic, was appointed chair of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform Task Force, a team formed by the American Society of Military Comptrollers to promote the Department of Defense’s PPBE reform awareness, ExecutiveBiz reported. Conlin...
The Department of the Air Force has undoubtedly led the U.S. military’s modernization push in the last few years — DAF leaders have long been champions of transformational changes like IT improvements, digital transformation efforts and data advancements. But officials argue that financial management, or FM, needs a bigger seat at the table in t...
Cyber and information technology objectives are so implicit in the U.S. Air Force’s current trajectory that some officials have been prompted to double check that these issues are still at the front of mind for the service branch’s highest ranking officials. Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer for the Department of the Air Force, ass...
As the U.S. Air Force continues its aggressive pursuit of modernization and prepares for the future fight, the head of the service wants to put words into action and get meaningful military capabilities into the hands of warfighters faster than ever before. “I’m not very interested in experimentations or demos. I’m prepared to accept r...
The State Department has approved the request of the Japanese government to acquire advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles and related equipment under a potential $293 million foreign military sales agreement. Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missile systems business will serve as the principal contractor for the possible FMS covering 150...
