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  • Air Force Reserve Command Taps 3 Contractors for Architect-Engineer Services IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Reserve Command Taps 3 Contractors for Architect-Engineer Services IDIQ

    Three companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $48.8 million contract to provide engineering,  architectural and environmental services to the Air Force Reserve Command’s headquarters. The Defense Department said Thursday contractors will perform work at Robins Air Force Base, AFRC host bases, other active bases and rented locations through June 13, 2023. AFRC received seven proposals for the indefinite‐delivery/indefinite‐quantity […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Secures $57M in Air Force Computer Software R&D IDIQs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Secures $57M in Air Force Computer Software R&D IDIQs

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received two five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth up to $57.1 million to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop computer software platforms. The Defense Department said Friday APL will aim to create a tool that can aid the service branch’s engineering and R&D efforts in the areas of space control, communications […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th F-35 Aircraft to Hill AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th F-35 Aircraft to Hill AFB

    Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office have delivered the 300th F-35 aircraft. The 300th Lightning II unit is an F-35A variant assigned to the U.S. Air Force‘s Hill AF Base, the company said Monday. At present, 197 conventional takeoff and landing variants, 75 short takeoff/vertical landing variants and 28 carrier variants compose the combined F-35 fleet. Over 620 pilots and […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force to Test Receiver Function of KC-46A Tanker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Air Force to Test Receiver Function of KC-46A Tanker

    Boeing and the U.S. Air Force‘s 418th Flight Test Squadron will collaborate to test the KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling aircraft. The service branch said Thursday it seeks to determine the tanker’s ability to receive fuel from a KC-10 Extender or a KC-135 Stratotanker platform. One Pegasus unit arrived May 23 at the Edwards AF Base in California and will stay […] More

  • Pivotal to Provide Software, Services to Air Force Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pivotal to Provide Software, Services to Air Force Facilities

    Pivotal Software has received a one-year, $47.54 million “other transaction” agreement to provide software and services to multiple U.S. Air Force bases. The company will also help the service branch implement a prototyped methodology across the Air Operations Center and targeting and geospatial-intelligence enterprises, the Defense Department said Thursday. Locations of work include Tyndall AFB in […] More

  • Raytheon to Produce Radar Warning Receivers Under $90M Air Force FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Produce Radar Warning Receivers Under $90M Air Force FMS Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential five-year, $90 million contract to manufacture radar warning receiver systems to fullfill production requirements under a foreign military sales transaction. Raytheon’s self protect systems business will fabricate, integrate, test and deliver AN/ALR‐69A receivers through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the company will receive $51.5 million from Japanese FMS funds upon […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Gets USAF Reimbursement Modification for Satellite Sustainment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Gets USAF Reimbursement Modification for Satellite Sustainment

    Northrop Grumman has received a $7.1 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for reimbursements concerning satellite sensor sustainment services. The increase stems from an exercised option tasking the company to sustain sensors of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program on-orbit constellation and raises the contract’s value to $14.1 million, the Defense Department said Wednesday. USAF obligates entire the modification amount that was […] More

  • Report: Rockwell Collins, Korean Company to Bid for Chinook Upgrades - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Rockwell Collins, Korean Company to Bid for Chinook Upgrades

    Rockwell Collins has partnered with Korea Aerospace Industries to bid for the opportunity to upgrade 27 CH-47  Chinook helicopters of the South Korean army and air force, Defense News reported Thursday. A press release from KAI states that a memorandum of understanding the two companies signed covers the collaborative design, modification and test flights for the […] More

  • Lockheed to Update, Maintain Air Force C-5M Transport Aircraft Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update, Maintain Air Force C-5M Transport Aircraft Software

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential six-year, $31.4 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force maintain and update software on the C-5M Galaxy military transport aircraft. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also includes maintenance and engineering support for the service branch’s Systems Integration Laboratory, the Defense Department said Tuesday. USAF will obligate $4.9 million in fiscal 2017 through fiscal 2023 transportation funds at […] More

  • PreTalen to Help USAF Further Develop Comms System Analysis Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PreTalen to Help USAF Further Develop Comms System Analysis Tool

    PreTalen will continue to develop an automated platform for analyzing wireless communication systems under a $23.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The company aims to incorporate a signals-based test framework into the Position Navigation and Time Autonomous Negotiator Applying Cognitive Effects-Based Analysis system, or PANACEA, the service branch said Thursday. USAF expects PreTalen to finish the project March 30, 2023. PANACEA […] More

  • Air Force Taps Raytheon to Sustain Cross-Domain Multinational Data Sharing Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Raytheon to Sustain Cross-Domain Multinational Data Sharing Platform

    Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business has received a potential five-year, $37.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to sustain a technology platform that helps multinational forces share intelligence data. The company will continue to perform sustainment work on the Cross Domain Enterprise All Source User Repository architecture and further develop the NGA Coalition Data […] More

  • MTSI to Help Air Force Procure Aircraft Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MTSI to Help Air Force Procure Aircraft Systems

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a contract to provide technical and management support for the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to acquire aircraft systems and subsystems. MTSI said Tuesday it will help the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center address its objectives to study, develop, test and field new aeronautical platforms at the early stages of the acquisition lifecycle. […] More