The U.S. Air Force has named 55 awardees on a potential 11-year, $46 billion contract to perform work related to model-based systems engineering, weapons and enterprise analytics, digital engineering, Agile processes and open systems architecture. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida received 58 offers for th...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a 10-year, $947.3 million sole source contract from the U.S. Air Force for engineering services in support of an aircraft electronic warfare system initiative. The contractor will provide block and non-block cycle services for the AN/ALQ-172 Countermeasures Program and Air Force Global Strike Command...
Preston Dunlap, chief architect for the Air Force and Space Force, recently spoke with GovConWire for an exclusive Q&A session regarding the first phase of delivery for Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), the speed and timing challenges of technology development, the future of network modernization and a lot more. Dunlap will also be f...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) and Ball Aerospace has won positions on a $200 million multiple-award contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory develop technologies to avoid a cyber attack on military avionics systems. The two companies will conduct research and development efforts with the goal of identifying and mitigating cyber vulnerabi...
Hughes Network Systems plans to offer satellite communications platforms to the U.S. Air Force through the company’s prime position on a $950 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the development of an all-domain military information sharing system. Germantown, Maryland-based Hughes said Tuesday it was one of the compani...
Seven joint ventures and seven independent firms have won spots on a potential $2 billion contract vehicle to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Air Force’s airfield infrastructure projects worldwide. The 772nd Enterprise Sourcing Squadron received 25 proposals for Pool 1 of the AE-Next acquisition program via full and ...
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) has secured a potential $338.1 million contract to manufacture additional subscale aerial targets for use in the U.S. Air Force’s weapons-release training exercises. The sole-source contract is for lots 17 to 21 AFSAT production, logistics and out-of-warranty repair services, the Departmen...
The State Department has approved a potential $270 million foreign military sales deal covering sustainment equipment and services for Greece’s F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Atec are the principa...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Astronautics Corporation of America subsidiary Kearfott an $82.12 million sole-source contract to repair navigation systems on B-2 Spirit heavy strategic bombers. The defense equipment manufacturer will work on the B-52 inertial measurement unit and attitude motion sensor set at its facility in Pine Brook, New Jersey, ...
Amentum has received a five-year, $301.4 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force maintain three jet trainer platforms, The company will perform organizational- and intermediate-level maintenance support for the T-38C Talon, T-6A Texon II and T-1A Jayhawk aircraft at Vance AF Base, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. USAF officially award...
