The Federal Aviation Administration has chosen seven companies for a potential $271.9 million small business set-aside contract to provide augmentation or backup services to the agency’s automated aviation weather observing systems at U.S. airports. FAA named the awardees for the multiple-award weather observation services contract in a notice...
Mitre will continue to operate a federally funded research and development center for the Federal Aviation Administration through 2030 under a nine-year contract. The Center for Advanced Aviation System Development FFRDC advises and offers technical expertise to help the FAA improve the national airspace system’s security, safety and efficiency, M...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its FAA: Climate Change Priorities Fireside Chat session Wednesday featuring keynote speaker Kevin Welsh, executive director of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Environment and Energy, who delivered exclusive insights to the virtual audience on how the aviation industry is tackling climate change thro...
Despite a noticeable dip in air travel over the past two years due to COVID-19 restrictions, the aviation industry still produces a significant percentage of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the Federal Aviation Administration is working to enact transformative change across aviation organizations to accelerate the adoption of sustainability initi...
Executive Mosaic’s flagship GovCon Wire will feature Kevin Welsh, executive director of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Environment and Energy, in an upcoming virtual fireside conversation to overview the agency’s mission to address climate change within the aviation sector. The FAA unveiled in November its plan to impl...
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to launch a solicitation process to identify a new air traffic control tower design that can address the agency’s energy efficiency and sustainability requirements. FAA said Thursday it will structure the design sourcing effort into three phases: request for information, request for qualification and r...
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded several companies contracts worth more than $100 million combined to build technologies that could help reduce aircraft’s fuel consumption, noise and emissions. FAA said Friday the awards are part of the third phase of the agency’s Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise program, a public-priv...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to help the Federal Aviation Administration operate, maintain and update digital air traffic control systems under a five-year, $223 million contract. The company said June 30 it will also update applications for the FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System being used by ATC tower pe...
Two Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business units have partnered with MetTel to pursue a Federal Aviation Administration contract for telecommunications and information management services intended to support National Airspace System operations. Raytheon said Monday its intelligence and space unit, Collins Aerospace business and MetTel aim t...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has secured a potential eight-year, $99 million contract to supply new transceivers to the Federal Aviation Administration for emergency ground-to-air radio communications. The company said Thursday it will replace legacy backup radios with the URC-300E system as part of the FAA’s Eme...
