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  • Report: Air Force to Buy 22 Lightly Armed Cessna Caravan Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force to Buy 22 Lightly Armed Cessna Caravan Aircraft

    The U.S. Air Force plans to procure 22 lightly armed variants of the Cessna Caravan aircraft to deliver to allied governments for use in surveillance missions, FlightGlobal reported Monday. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps states that the Air Force wants potential vendors to supply AC-208 planes that are equipped with various weapons and sensors. Interested companies […] More

  • ACT I Gets Task Order to Support USAF Exercise Program; Claudio Monticelli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I Gets Task Order to Support USAF Exercise Program; Claudio Monticelli Comments

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a three-year task order to provide exercise program support to the U.S. Air Force‘s Eighth Air Force organization headquartered at Barksdale AF Base in Louisiana. ACT I said the order covers planning, scheduling, tasking and monitoring the participation of Eighth Air Force in the chairman of the joint chiefs […] More

  • Air Force Taps Xerox to Provide Document Tools & Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Xerox to Provide Document Tools & Support Services

    The U.S. Air Force has tasked Xerox to aid the service branch’s document management activities and replace USAF document equipment with new multifunction tools throughout 2019. The company said Thursday it will provide support to address the Air Force’s print, scan and fax needs, as well as help desk and server management services. Xerox expects the equipment replacements […] More

  • Air Force Vet Lisa Disbrow Appointed Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Vet Lisa Disbrow Appointed Johns Hopkins APL Senior Fellow

    Lisa Disbrow, former undersecretary and acting secretary of the U.S. Air Force, has been named a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. She will work with APL’s technical professionals to help inform policy and technology decisionmaking in the U.S. government and military, the laboratory said Tuesday. Disbrow managed nearly 660,000 airmen and USAF’s […] More

  • Lockheed to Pursue Air Force Unified Cyber Platform Devt Contract; Deon Viergutz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Pursue Air Force Unified Cyber Platform Devt Contract; Deon Viergutz Comments

    Lockheed Martin has announced it will bid on contract to build a unified technology platform for the U.S. Air Force to manage cross-domain cybersecurity missions. The company said Tuesday its cyber solutions arm will offer the Henosis integrated mission system that works to integrate cyber functions into air, land, maritime and space operations. Henosis is a command-and-control battle […] More

  • Polaris Alpha Books $96M in Air Force C2ISR Support Task Orders; Kevin Moffatt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Polaris Alpha Books $96M in Air Force C2ISR Support Task Orders; Kevin Moffatt Comments

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Polaris Alpha multiple task orders worth up to $96 million to support the military branch’s command, control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Polaris Alpha said Monday it will perform work in multiple areas such as C2ISR software development, enhancement and maintenance. The company will also help USAF develop machine learning and complex event […] More

  • DoD Recognizes Air Force for Raytheon-Led Radar System Maintenance Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Recognizes Air Force for Raytheon-Led Radar System Maintenance Program

    A U.S. Air Force team has obtained an award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense for its management of a Raytheon-led contract to maintain, sustain and repair the ground-based Cobra Dane radar system. The Air Force said Friday its Cobra Dane System Sustainment Team received the 2017 Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics Award at […] More

  • York Space Systems Passes Critical Design Review for Army Satellite Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    York Space Systems Passes Critical Design Review for Army Satellite Mission

    York Space Systems has cleared a critical design review for a satellite that the aerospace company currently develops for the U.S. Army. Representatives from the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command and the U.S. Air Force conducted the review of the Harbinger mission at York’s spacecraft design and production facility in Denver, Colo., the company said Wednesday. […] More

  • Report: Qatar's Future Boeing-Built F-15s Would Include New Wing Upgrade - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Qatar’s Future Boeing-Built F-15s Would Include New Wing Upgrade

    Boeing will introduce an updated wing structure for the F-15 Advanced Eagle fighter aircraft that the company will deliver to Qatar, FlightGlobal reported Friday. Steve Parker, Boeing vice-president of F-15 programs, told FlightGlobal that the aircraft maker could offer the redesigned wing as a service life extension option for the F-15 fleets of the U.S. Air Force and […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Space Tech R&D Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Space Tech R&D Proposals

    The U.S. Air Force has requested proposals from small businesses that can research and develop technologies to optimize the U.S. military’s space systems. The Air Force said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that the Spacecraft Object Tracking and Characterization program will cover space systems such as launch platforms, payload adapters, on-orbit systems, communications links, ground systems and […] More

  • HackerOne Unveils Results of Second Air Force Bug Bounty Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HackerOne Unveils Results of Second Air Force Bug Bounty Challenge

    HackerOne has released the results of the U.S. Air Force‘s second bug bounty challenge that invited hackers from 26 countries to identify vulnerabilities in the military branch’s systems. The company said Thursday 27 hackers participated in the 20-day Hack the Air Force 2.0 event and found 106 valid vulnerabilities, which earned the participants $103,883 in total bounties. HackerOne […] More

  • DARPA, Air Force Conduct Flight Test of BAE-Built Battle Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Air Force Conduct Flight Test of BAE-Built Battle Mgmt Software

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force have tested a BAE Systems-made on-board software that works to deliver information to operators and pilots in environments where communications can be disrupted. BAE said Tuesday DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory conducted an 11-day flight test of the semi-autonomous Distributed Battle Management software. DBM is designed to […] More