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  • Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Help Maintain Vance Air Force Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Help Maintain Vance Air Force Base

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded ASRC Federal a potential five-year, $190 million contract to help the 71st Flying Training Wing run and maintain the Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma. ASRC Federal said Thursday the contract covers installation, engineering, transportation, communication and inventory and supply management services. The company will also provide operations support for on-site and auxiliary field fire departments. “We […] More

  • SRA to Develop New Machine Learning Approaches for US Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRA to Develop New Machine Learning Approaches for US Air Force

    A CSRA subsidiary has been awarded a $7.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop new approaches for analyses of the trust calibration process to facilitate human-machine collaborations, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes SRA International will develop concepts to help aircraft pilots, intelligence analysts and maintenance technicians build trust with robots. The Air […] More

  • American Systems to Extend Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity Support; Peter Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    American Systems to Extend Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity Support; Peter Smith Comments

    The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded American Systems a five-year, $10 million task order to extend its integrated test, evaluation and analytical support services to the U.S. Air Force Medical Evaluation Support Activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland. American Systems said Monday its serviecs will include program management, operational tests and market research-early acquisition program test support to the Defense Department‘s Operational Medicine […] More

  • Raytheon Tests GPS OCX Black Wide Area Network; Bill Sullivan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Tests GPS OCX Black Wide Area Network; Bill Sullivan Comments

    Raytheon has conducted a “run for record” test on network connectivity technology for the operational control system of the U.S. Air Force’s GPS satellite constellation. The company said Monday it tested the mission capability and cyber control functions of the Black Wide Area Network that is scheduled to be deployed in 2017 as part of OCX blocks 1 and 2. “This latest milestone shows […] More

  • ISS Receives Air Force Software Maintenance Support Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ISS Receives Air Force Software Maintenance Support Extension

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Intelligent Software Solutions a one-year, $12.2 million task order to continue to help the service branch maintain U.S. military software installed worldwide, the Colorado Springs Business Journal reported Thursday. Amber Baillie writes ISS will also extend its software and maintenance support for the U.S. Central Command, NATO and the Air Force’s Pacific operations. The contract represents the […] More

  • US Air Force Mulls Energy-as-a-Service Model; Mark Correll Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Air Force Mulls Energy-as-a-Service Model; Mark Correll Comments

    The U.S. Air Force is looking into the possibility of using an energy-as-a-service model at its bases in order to keep facilities powered in the event of a cyber attack or a natural disaster, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes the model could replace the Air Force’s existing business arrangements that involve enhanced-use leases and energy saving performance […] More

  • NASA Seeks Next-Generation Spacecraft Onboard Computing Processor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Next-Generation Spacecraft Onboard Computing Processor

    NASA has kicked off its hunt for a processor based on the ARM architecture for use aboard the space agency’s and U.S. Air Force’s future manned and unmanned spacecraft, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. John Keller writes NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center released a solicitation Monday in search of a radiation-hardened, multicore processor under the […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts AR1 Engine Preburner Tests; Eileen Drake Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts AR1 Engine Preburner Tests; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed another milestone in the company’s AR1 rocket engine development program following completion of preburner tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The tests aimed to verify design parameters of the preburner injector built for Aerojet Rocketdyne’s new engine technology, the company said Friday. Aerojet Rocketdyne announced its milestone plan for AR1 engine in 2014 […] More

  • Woolpert Secures Air Force Geospatial Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert Secures Air Force Geospatial Services Contract

    Woolpert has secured a one-year, $4.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to help the service branch manage its geospatial information library across a number of installations within five USAF commands. The company said Friday it will provide geospatial services to the Air Combat Command, Air Education and Training Command, Air Force District of Washington, Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Force […] More

  • PSI to Continue Expeditionary Medical Support for US Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PSI to Continue Expeditionary Medical Support for US Air Force

    Planned Systems International has received a potential three-year task order to continue providing consultation, advisory, analytical and assistance services for the U.S. Air Force‘s expeditionary medical support system modernization effort. PSI will also support home station medical response, casualty prevention and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense programs of the Air Force Medical Service organization, the company said Friday. The […] More

  • Nimbis Services Secures Phase III SBIR Contract From USAF for R&D Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nimbis Services Secures Phase III SBIR Contract From USAF for R&D Support

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $9 million Small Business Innovation Research phase 3 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Nimbis Services for continued research and development services on a cloud-based Defense Department silicon integrated circuit design environment. DoD said Thursday Air Force Research Laboratory will obligate $749,468 from fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funds for the first cost-plus-fixed-fee task order in the sole-source IDIQ […] More

  • Raytheon's GPS OCX System Passes Air Force Qualification Test, Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s GPS OCX System Passes Air Force Qualification Test, Design Review

    Raytheon has passed a qualification test and design review for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System the company is developing for the U.S. Air Force contract. The company said Thursday the GPS OCX Monitor Station Receiver Element met the requirements of an electromagnetic interference test with a 100 percent passing rate as well as a design review which approves transition […] More