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  • America Makes Gets AF Funds for Aircraft Part Replacements Manufacturing Research; Dennis Butcher Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    America Makes Gets AF Funds for Aircraft Part Replacements Manufacturing Research; Dennis Butcher Comments

    America Makes has received a $10 million grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under a new five-year cooperative agreement to refine manufacturing techniques for aircraft replacement parts. America Makes will collaborate with the University of Dayton Research Institute, Youngstown State University, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and Air Force Reserve Command’s 910th Airlift […] More

  • Lockheed Secures $71M Air Force C-130J Aircraft Sustainment Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures $71M Air Force C-130J Aircraft Sustainment Contract

    Lockheed Martin has secured a one-year, $71.4 million contract to perform sustainment work on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft. The company will also provide inventory control point management, consumable spares replenishment, repair, sustaining engineering support, technical data and depot activation services for the aircraft’s weapon system, the Defense Department said Friday. Work under […] More

  • Air Force Plans F-15 Update, Sustainment Support Contract Award to Boeing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Plans F-15 Update, Sustainment Support Contract Award to Boeing

    The U.S. Air Force plans to award a sole-source contract to Boeing to update and sustain the service branch’s F-15 Strike Eagle aircraft. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Monday the proposed indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover software and hardware design, installation of updated kits, product support, structural and subsystem component production, development […] More

  • Boeing to Help Air Force Train F-15 Pilots, Weapons System Operators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Help Air Force Train F-15 Pilots, Weapons System Operators

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $27.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide Mission Training Center services with company-built simulation equipment. Boeing’s defense, space and security business will provide simulation technology designed to train F-15C and F-15E pilots and weapons system operators, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will occur at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North […] More

  • Teledyne Subsidiary to Supply Air Force With Aircrew Laser Eye Protection Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teledyne Subsidiary to Supply Air Force With Aircrew Laser Eye Protection Tech

    A subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies has received a $30.1 million contract to deliver  company-made Aircrew Laser Eye Protection spectacles to the U.S. Air Force. Teledyne Scientific & Imaging will provide ALEP spectacles for the service branch’s aircrew members to protect their eyes from hazard and threat laser devices as well as  visual acuity degradation when they participate in combat and training activities, […] More

  • Boeing to Help Air Force Build KC-46 Aircraft Maintenance Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Help Air Force Build KC-46 Aircraft Maintenance Training System

    Boeing has won a potential $45.3 million contract to develop, produce and sustain an integrated maintenance training system for the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of KC-46 Pegasus  tanker aircraft. The company will help the military service build an MTS equipped with virtual maintenance training systems, landing gear and boom operator trainers, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD added Boeing will […] More

  • Air Force, Northrop Develop ISR Payload Adapter for Global Hawk UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Northrop Develop ISR Payload Adapter for Global Hawk UAS

    Northrop Grumman has worked with the U.S. Air Force‘s Life Cycle Management Center and Air Combat Command to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance payload adapter for the Block 30 RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system. The parties built the IPA technology under a cooperative research-and-development agreement as part of efforts to link existing and future data-gathering sensors with the RQ-4 drone’s airframe system, the […] More

  • MacB, Exeter Partner to Sustain Air Force’s Purchase Request Processing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacB, Exeter Partner to Sustain Air Force’s Purchase Request Processing System

    MacAulay-Brown will collaborate with Exeter Government Services to provide process management and sustainment support for the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition platform under a five-year contract. MacB said Monday the contract also covers system analysis and software code design and testing support for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Purchase Request Processing System as well as […] More

  • Air Force, Lockheed Ink Multiyear C-130J Aircraft Production Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Lockheed Ink Multiyear C-130J Aircraft Production Deal

    Lockheed Martin has received a multiyear contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s mobility directorate to produce an additional 78 C-130J Super Hercules transport planes. The directorate will use the aircraft to provide airlift support to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, the Air Force said Sunday. The contract contains an option that […] More

  • Air Force Unveils Weapon Systems Anti-Tamper Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Unveils Weapon Systems Anti-Tamper Program

    The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit white papers for a five-year, $49 million program that aims to develop anti-tamper platforms designed to protect weapon systems from technology theft, reverse engineering and other threats, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes the service branch issued the broad agency announcement in support of […] More

  • General Dynamics Secures Air Force Contract Modification for IFF Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Secures Air Force Contract Modification for IFF Production

    General Dynamics has landed a $20.9 million modification from the U.S. Air Force for a previously awarded KIV-78 Identification Friend or Foe system production contract. The company’s C4 systems business will deliver contract line items for the new IFF configuration and associated spares as well as an estimated 700 additional units annually for foreign military sales, […] More

  • Air Force Taps Array for Budget Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Array for Budget Support Contracts

    Array Information Technology has secured two contracts to provide budget support services for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday it will provide database and application management services in support of the secretary of the Air Force for financial management and budget under the Automated Budget Interactive Data Environment System contract. ABIDES is a tool designed to […] More