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  • Lockheed Gets Air Force Funds to Integrate Subsystem for Next 2 SBIRS Missile Warning Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Air Force Funds to Integrate Subsystem for Next 2 SBIRS Missile Warning Satellites

    Lockheed Martin has secured a nearly $46 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to integrate an additional subsystem for the fifth and sixth Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous missile warning satellites. The Defense Department said Thursday Lockheed will also modify SBIRS GEO-5 and GEO-6 propulsion systems under the modification. Lockheed’s space systems business will perform work at a company facility in Sunnyvale, […] More

  • Lockheed Requests Incentive Package for Missile Production Facility Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Requests Incentive Package for Missile Production Facility Expansion

    Lockheed Martin seeks $3.5 million in incentives from the Orange County, Florida, government to expand the company’s manufacturing hub for missiles and fire control systems, Orlando Sentinel reported Tuesday. The Orange County’s board of commissioners will meet Tuesday to vote on a proposed resolution to authorize tax refunds and provide a $700,000 financing aid as part of an incentive package for Lockheed’s expansion […] More

  • CAE-Built AF Aeromedical Evacuation Trainer Becomes 'Fully Operational' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE-Built AF Aeromedical Evacuation Trainer Becomes ‘Fully Operational’

    A C-130 aeromedical evacuation trainer CAE built for the U.S. Air Force has been declared fully operational and ready for use at the service branch’s Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia. CAE said Monday the Aeromedical Evacuation Training System is equipped with a motion platform and designed to train aeromedical crews for pre-flight, emergency procedures and in-flight patient care on C-130 transport planes. […] More

  • Sierra Nevada-Embraer Team to Join Air Force Light Attack Aircraft Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada-Embraer Team to Join Air Force Light Attack Aircraft Demo

    The U.S. Air Force has invited a team composed of Sierra Nevada and Embraer‘s defense and security business to participate in the service branch’s OA-X light attack aircraft demonstration in July at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Sierra Nevada said Friday the two companies will jointly showcase the A-29 Super Tucano light air support aircraft at the OA-X assessment. OA-X will inform the Air […] More

  • Harris to Provide Sustainment Support for Air Force Distributed Space C2 System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Provide Sustainment Support for Air Force Distributed Space C2 System

    Harris has received a potential one-year, $18.9 million contract modification to provide system sustainment services for the U.S. Air Force’s distributed space command-and-control platform in Dahlgren, Virginia. The modification covers engineering, sustainment services for field service teams, software development and technical orders-related support as well as requirements development analysis and modeling, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • Raytheon Lands $53M Air Force Contract to Manufacture 3D Long-Range Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands $53M Air Force Contract to Manufacture 3D Long-Range Radars

    Raytheon has received a potential three-year, $52.7 million contract to design, develop and manufacture a long-range radar platform for the U.S. Air Force. The company will develop three units of the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar system under the fixed-price-incentive-firm contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received two bids for the […] More

  • Sweden to Consider Boeing-Saab Trainer Aircraft Contingent Upon USAF T-X Contract Win - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sweden to Consider Boeing-Saab Trainer Aircraft Contingent Upon USAF T-X Contract Win

    Sweden would consider buying the trainer aircraft from a team composed of Boeing and Saab to replace its aging fleet of trainer jets if both companies land the T-X contract with the U.S. Air Force, Defense News reported Monday. Col. Magnus Liljegren, head of Sweden’s air force department, told reporters during a Monday briefing in Stockholm that […] More

  • Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has won a potential $13.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to design, develop and deliver a testbed for Hallmark software and hardware platforms. The Defense Department said Friday that Ball Aerospace’s systems engineering solutions unit will build a testbed architecture that the military branch can apply to space command-and-control tasks, implement […] More

  • Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility

    Red River Computer has received a potential $34.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology and engineering support services for a new command-and-control center of the U.S. Air Force. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific received two proposals for the fixed-price contract that has a base period of 15 months […] More

  • L3 Delivers Boeing-Built KC-10 Aircraft to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Delivers Boeing-Built KC-10 Aircraft to Air Force

    L3 Technologies has achieved on-time delivery of the first Boeing-built KC-10 aerial refueling aircraft under L3’s contractor logistics support contract with the U.S. Air Force. New York City-based L3 said Thursday its Vertex Aerospace division received the aircraft in January 2017 and performed heavy maintenance check on the KC-10 within six months, in partnership with subcontractor HAECO/TIMCO. Vertex Aerospace […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force

    Charles River Analytics has won a four-year, $8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop artificial intelligence technology for domain experts to understand why decisions were made. The Air Force received 62 offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and obligated $1.3 million in fiscal 2016 research, development, test, and evaluation funds at the time of award, the […] More