A General Electric (NYSE: GE) subsidiary has won a potential $1.58 billion contract to manufacture as many as 329 propulsion systems for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15EX fighter aircraft program. GE Edison Works will initially produce 29 lot 2 F110 GE-129 engines and USAF has options to order the next seven production lots under the...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $298.2 million contract modification to repair common unmanned aircraft system components for the U.S. Air Force. USAF tasked the company to service sensor suites, launch and recovery equipment and mission controls of both the MQ-4C Triton and RQ-4B Global Hawk platforms, the Department of Defense said Thu...
Barton Ledford, former chief technology officer at software as a service provider Fonteva, was tapped by B3 Group to lead its Salesforce practice, which covers work in support of the Department of Veterans Affairs. The two-decade technology industry veteran will oversee a Center of Excellence established to support VA’s digital transformation ...
U.S. Army officials are working to synchronize the modernization of its enterprise and tactical networks for the first phase of an initiative to create an Army force that is ready for multidomain operations from 2028 onwards. The Army’s Unified Network Plan, released Oct. 8, outlines five lines of effort to align service personnel, capabilitie...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 4, 2021 — Verizon‘s public sector business will provide its 5G wireless network service to seven additional U.S. Air Force bases under the company’s Offer to Lease 2b contract from the Department of Defense, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 21. The company said its new award follows the OTL 1a and 1b contracts...
EY has secured a potential five-year, $200.2 million contract to examine data on general and working capital funds at the Department of the Air Force. The professional services firm will perform financial statement audit work for DAF, which is composed of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, under the labor-hour contract with a 12-month...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential $23.76 billion contract to provide sustainment support services for the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a performance period of nine years and eight months and a base value of $3.5 billion, the Departm...
Rolls-Royce has won a potential 17-year, $2.6 billion contract to provide replacement engines for the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) B-52H Stratofortress bombers. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received four bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which has a base period of six years worth appr...
Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a $183 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to produce an aircraft computer interface designed to enable communications between multiple contrasting systems. The company will engineer and integrate tactical mission systems in an effort to help special forces implement the system-of-systems interface, ...
The State Department has approved the request of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to continue receiving maintenance support services and related equipment for its helicopter fleet under a potential $500 million foreign military sale transaction. The MSS contract supports the AH-64D/E, UH-60L, UH-60M, Schweizer 333 and Bell 406CS helicopters deployed by t...
