Intelligent Decisions Inc. has won an Air Force contract to supply Panasonic Toughbooks to the branch’s bases worldwide, the company announced Thursday. The Air Force will receive Toughbook 31 fully-rugged notebooks and Toughbook 53 semi-rugged notebooks. President and CEO Harry Martin said the Toughbooks meet strict and wide-ranging Air Force requirements and will help military technicians. [...]
Boeing Co. has won a $55.3 million contract to upgrade elements of the Air Force’s B-1 lancer aircraft navigation system, the company announced Monday. Work under the three-and-a-half year contract will include installing new ring laser gyro navigation systems. Rick Greenwell, B-1 program director at Boeing, said the internal navigation system uses a ring laser [...]
Lockheed Martin Corp. has won a $7,377,392 Air Force contract to provide technology for converting digital signals directly to analog, the Defense Department announced Friday. The Air Force wants a single component technology resulting from this work. The company will perform work in Moorestown, N.J. and the Pentagon expects work to finish by April 30, [...]
Raytheon Co. is acquiring components to build munitions control units for the Indian air force, the company announced Thursday. India plans to use the units on 126 of its Jaguar Darin II planes. Harry Schulte, vice president of air warfare systems, said the country can use the units with the company’s joint standoff weapon, Maverick [...]
The U.K. Defense Ministry will buy a Boeing transport plane and should receive the plane later this year, the Chicago-based aerospace firm announced Wednesday. That plane will be the eighth C-17 Globemaster in the British air force’s fleet. The company provides the planes through performance-based logistics agreements. The company has delivered 241 C-17s worldwide, including [...]
Rockwell Collins Inc. has won a potential $6,676,911 Defense Logistics Agency contract to provide receiver transmitters, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. The Navy and Air Force are the using services under the firm-fixed-price contract. This contract is funded through the Army and Navy inter-departmental purchase requests for fiscal year 2012. The Pentagon expects work to [...]
Boeing Co. has hit every milestone on schedule for its aerial tanker refueling contract with the Air Force, a company executive told Federal News Radio. The Seattle-based aerospace and defense firm won a $35 billion contract in February 2011 to make the tankers, based off the company’s 767 commercial planes. Dennis Muilenberg, president of the [...]
