Tag Archives: U.S. Air Force

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) a $9.4 million order for Falcon III AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio systems that provide wideband networking of battlefields. Harris received a $5 million order for the devices from the Marine Corps earlier this month. The systems allow commanders to relay real-time information to warfighters …

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) and Norwegian defense company NAMMO are qualifying an alternate rocket engine for the AIM-120 advanced medium-range air-to-air missile. The new motor will be interchangeable with the AMRAAM propulsion system and will maintain the same performance as the current one. The U.S. Air Force is financing some nonrecurring costs …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded ITT Corp. (NYSE: ITT), Van Nuys, Calif., a $11, 908, 704 firm-fixed-price contract to purchase, test, deliver and install an airport surveillance radar/monopulse secondary surveillance radar system for the Royal Air Force of Oman. The system will support air traffic control mission requirements at Masirah Air …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NYSE: NOC), Clearfield, Utah, a $140, 173, 508 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract. Northrop Grumman will design, fabricate and modify to production configuration two complete test sets for the intercontinental ballistic missile reentry field support equipment engineering, management, and development program. The sets will …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), Seal Beach, Calif., a $16, 258, 969 cost-plus-award-fee contract modification for four sustainment contract line item numbers to include: Sustainment Contractor software maintenance Sustainment engineering Technical management agency support The modification also provides funds for two space vehicle contract line …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Space Systems Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., a $17, 735, 991 modification to a cost-plus-award-fee contract to extend the capabilities insertion study in the existing advanced extremely high frequency systems development and demonstration program. This extension includes support for capability and requirements tradeoffs …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (NYSE: GD) a $7.8 million contract to develop an open system architecture common back-end digital processor for Air Force radio frequency electronic devices. General Dynamics will produce processors capable of handling the digital processing needs of all Air Force …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded BAE Systems, Arlington, Va., a $11, 376, 398 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to develop airborne processing and sensor system hardware and software. The contract includes storage for real-time on-board detection and tracking of large numbers — 20, 000-plus — of dismounts and vehicles over a wide area. …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Space and Missions Systems Corp. (NYSE: NOC), San Jose, Calif., an $8, 797, 290 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification. Northrop will continue problem technical support and continue any additional tie line testing identified using two ASIP 1C sensors. It will also buy replacement ASIP 1C assets, …

The U.S. Air Force has awarded AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM) a $15 million contract field teams task order to provide component repair, cleaning, packaging, shipping and A-10 wing refurbishment support for the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, 576 Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Squadron, and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base …