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  • General Atomics Receives USAF MQ-9 Software Devt Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Receives USAF MQ-9 Software Devt Order

    A General Atomics business unit has received a potential three-year, $49.3 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to develop, field and sustain the software for MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will develop the MQ-9 software for the Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command, the Defense Department said Friday. The Air Force […] More

  • Bell Boeing-Built Osprey Fleet Surpasses 400K Flight Hours - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Boeing-Built Osprey Fleet Surpasses 400K Flight Hours

    The fleet of V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, produced by a joint venture of Boeing and Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary, has recorded more than 400,000 flight hours to date. Bell Boeing-built V-22s have supported theater security cooperation, casualty evacuation, tactical aircraft and personnel recovery, disaster response and VIP transport operations worldwide, Boeing said Tuesday. The U.S. Marine Corps has used the […] More

  • General Dynamics Hands 10,000th FAA Air Traffic Control Radio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Hands 10,000th FAA Air Traffic Control Radio

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has produced and delivered its 10,000th air traffic control radio to the Federal Aviation Administration under the agency’s NEXCOM 2 modernization program. The company said Friday the CM-300/350 voice over internet protocol radios were designed to offer communication capacity for air traffic controllers and pilots who operate within the National Airspace System. […] More

  • Leidos' RPA Operations Center Receives AFA Recognition; Mike Hile Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ RPA Operations Center Receives AFA Recognition; Mike Hile Comments

    The Air Force Association’s Martin H. Harris Chapter has recognized Leidos for its efforts to support armed unmanned aerial vehicle systems through a remotely piloted aircraft operations center. Leidos said Tuesday the association also designated the company-operated RPA ROC as a Jimmy Doolittle Educational Fellow. The company used the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s risk management framework to install […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Ships Another MC-130J Combat Transport Aircraft to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Ships Another MC-130J Combat Transport Aircraft to Air Force

    Lockheed Martin has delivered an additional MC-130J Commando II combat transport and special operations tanker to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Monday the Air Force has assigned the aircraft to the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field in Florida The Lockheed-built MC-130J will succeed the legacy MC-130P Combat Shadow aircraft. The MC-130J is designed to support […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Industry Information on Records Mgmt Automation Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Industry Information on Records Mgmt Automation Tool

    The U.S. Air Force wants industry information on potential sources for a tool that can automate records management processes in support of efforts to boost consistency and timeliness in the filing of records. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday stated that the Air Force Special Operations Command seeks a Defense Department-accredited records management system with authority to operate on the Air Force […] 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

  • Air Force Takes in 1,400 Rockwell Collins-Built Remote GPS Receivers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Takes in 1,400 Rockwell Collins-Built Remote GPS Receivers

    Rockwell Collins has supplied 1,400 anti-jamming and anti-spoofing GPS receivers to the U.S. Air Force‘s Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command under a follow-on order. The company said Monday its Remote Secure Receivers are designed with the Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module that works to help military personnel secure their smartphones, tablets, radios and vehicle computing systems. Rockwell Collins has built and […] More

  • Air Force Requests Info on Battlefield Air Operations Software Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Requests Info on Battlefield Air Operations Software Sources

    The U.S. Air Force has begun its search for potential industry sources of a suite of machine-to-machine software programs that the service branch can use in battlefield air operations. The Air Force plans to incorporate data gathered through a request for information posted April 29 into the Air Force Special Operations Command’s Increment III Capabilities Development document set for […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers 2 C-130J Variants to Coast Guard, Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers 2 C-130J Variants to Coast Guard, Air Force

    Lockheed Martin has dispatched two variants of the company’s C-130J Super Hercules airlifter to the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday that the Coast Guard received the search-and-surveillance HC-130J Tuesday after that aircraft underwent post-production modifications at a Lockheed facility in Greenville, South Carolina while the MC-130J was delivered Friday to the Air Force Special […] More

  • General Atomics to Develop Air Force Drone Software Line - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Develop Air Force Drone Software Line

    General Atomics has received a $34 million order to develop and deploy a new software line for the Air Force Special Operations Command’s MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will field the MQ-9 medium-altitude long-endurance tactical lead-off hitter software line under the basic ordering agreement with the U.S. Air Force, the Defense Department […] More

  • Breaking Defense: DARPA, AFRL to Test-Fire General Atomics-Built Laser in January - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Breaking Defense: DARPA, AFRL to Test-Fire General Atomics-Built Laser in January

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory will perform in January live-fire tests on a General Atomics-built laser weapon that works to generate up to 150 kilowatts of energy, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Richard Whittle writes the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System based-laser platform will be test-fired at various aerial […] More