Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential five-year, $3.6 billion contract to develop, test and integrate an airborne communications relay system for the U.S. Air Force. The company will also help the service branch operate and maintain payloads and ground stations of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, the Department of Defense...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $2.12 billion contract modification to produce the seventh batch of KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force. The company will provide data, licenses, subscriptions and flat file to the service branch in addition to 15 tankers, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The Air Force will pay...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will manufacture 12 more KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft for the U.S. Air Force under a $1.69B contract option. The award for the sixth tanker production lot covers licenses, data, subscriptions and a flat file, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. In a separate announcement, Boeing said the new contract brings the number...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded an additional 36 spots on a potential $950M contract to build and operate systems across the ground, sea, air, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The vendors will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contrac...
Guilford, Maine-based woodenware manufacturing company Hardwood Products has secured a $110.1M undefinitized contract from the U.S. Air Force to obtain machinery and equipment needed to ramp up production of foam-tip nasal swabs for medical use. The AF Life Cycle Management issued the award as a commercial contract comes in support of industrial bas...
Isabel Guzman, director of California's Office of the Small Business Advocate, has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as head of the Small Business Administration. The Biden transition team also announced the nominations of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh to lead the departments of Commerce and La...
GovConWire’s Air Force: IT Plans and Priorities Forum will feature Lauren Knausenberger, deputy chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force, as the keynote speaker. During her address, she will discuss how the industry can progress the latest initiative across the Air Force. “IT is the foundation on which we do everything else,” Knausenber...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $189.3M contract modification to procure kits, support equipment and contractor services for all-digital electronic warfare technology that will be integrated onto the U.S. Air Force's F-15 jets....
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a $246.4M contract modification that adds production pricing for exhaust pipes of the U.S. Air Force's B-2 bomber aircraft....
The State Department has cleared Saudi Arabia’s request to procure 3K GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb I munitions produced by Boeing (NYSE: BA), associated equipment and support services from the U.S. government through a potential $290M foreign military sales deal....
