In its fiscal year 2018 budget request, the US Air Force (USAF) has requested funding for construction to improve aircraft ranges in Utah and Nevada. This would allow the USAF to utilize the full range of capabilities available to F-35A aircrews, said USAF Chief of Staff General David Goldfein and Service Secretary Heather Wilson in...
Dynetics has received a potential 11-year, $221.7 million contract from NASA to design, build and test a universal stage adapter for integration into the Space Launch System rocket. NASA said Thursday it will use the adapter to connect the SLS rocket to the Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission-2, a possible first crewed and s...
China is expanding its access to foreign ports so as to sustain deployments in the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, according to a U.S. Department of Defense report. China is seeking “to regularize and sustain deployments in the ‘far seas\'” and “project and sustain military power at greater distances,&#...
The Department of Defense has made œa huge leap forward in unmanned systems in five years, said Dyke Weatherington, currently performing the duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (OUSD) (AT&L.) Speaking at the Potomac Officers Club Tu...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 5, 2017 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has delivered the first HC-130J Combat King II personnel recovery aircraft built for the U.S. Air National Guard in Alaska in support of the service’s operations in the region, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the aircraft will work to supp...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 5, 2017 ” CSRA (NYSE: CSRA) will continue to provide support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations under a potential $61 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the contract serves to extend its 20-year support for th...
Advanced Technology International, an Analytical Services (ANSER) subsidiary, has inked a cooperative deal with a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored consortium which created a collaborative contract vehicle worth a potential $333 million. ANSER said Thursday the Metals Affordability Initiative was established to consolidate resou...
Bristol Design Build Services, Mirador Enterprises, MJ Takisaki, Rore and Tunista Construction have each received a spot on a potential $95 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force for design-build construction services. The Defense Department said Friday the 92nd Contracting Squadron from the Fairch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3l_UmU2Yfc 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force gasp through an eight-week Marine Corps Combatant Divers Course at Camp Schwab, Okinawa, Japan. Six instructors from the Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center, in Panama City, Florida, attempted to tear the Marines out of t...
Weekly Roundup May 29 – June 2 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Unmanned systems are starting to be more and more ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they’ve been in use in the defense industry for decades, increased attention from the commercial...
