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  • Air Force Taps FIU to Launch Antenna Research Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps FIU to Launch Antenna Research Center

    The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research has granted a $4.8 million award to Florida International University for the launching of a new research center dedicated to developing origami or foldable antennas. Stavros Georgakopoulos, associate professor at the university’s department of electrical and computer engineering, will serve as the leader of the Center for Physically Reconfigurable and Deployable […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Delivery of C-130Js to USAF Base in Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Delivery of C-130Js to USAF Base in Japan

    Lockheed Martin has completed the last two C-130J-30 Super Hercules deliveries to a U.S. Air Force base in Japan. The company said Tuesday 36th Airlift Squadron crews stationed at Yokota Air Base use the airlifters to conduct cargo delivery, troop transport, airdrop and aeromedical operations in the Western Pacific region. Yokota received a total of nine C-130J-30s from […] More

  • USAF Taps Tribalco to Support Technology Service Effort Under $57M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Taps Tribalco to Support Technology Service Effort Under $57M Contract

    Tribalco has received a five-year, $57 million contract to deliver services and products in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Guardian Angel Technical Recovery III program. The company will provide technical recovery kits, training, annual maintenance, system engineering, program management and kit modernization via technology refresh under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur in Bethesda, Md., with […] More

  • DynCorp Gets $60M Modification on Air Force Base Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp Gets $60M Modification on Air Force Base Support Contract

    DynCorp International has secured a $59.6 million contract modification to continue to help manage and maintain U.S. Air Force‘s base supply activities. The service branch exercised an option under a previously awarded contract for the company to extend supply support at Columbus, Laughlin, Randolph, Sheppard and Vance AF installations, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The company will also […] More

  • Harris to Produce Updated Counter Communication System for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Produce Updated Counter Communication System for Air Force

    Harris has received a $44.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture an updated configuration of the ground-based Counter Communication System. The Defense Department said Tuesday Harris will provide Block 10.2 systems along with depot spares to the service branch under the modification, which brings the contract’s potential value to $127.1 million. Work will take place in Palm Bay, Florida, through Feb. […] More

  • General Atomics' Multi-Payload Demonstration Satellite Completes Pre-Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Multi-Payload Demonstration Satellite Completes Pre-Flight Test

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has concluded pre-flight and full system tests of a satellite built to host multiple technology payloads for on-orbit demonstration. The company said Monday its Orbital Test Bed will launch onboard the SpaceX-built Falcon Heavy rocket as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Technology Program. OTB will carry a deep-space atomic clock that was produced […] More

  • Raytheon Develops Satellite Data Processing System Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Develops Satellite Data Processing System Prototype

    Raytheon has developed a prototype ground-based system designed to collect and process space surveillance data for disaster and threat response applications. The company said Friday it designed the prototype system in an effort to help first responders and military troops obtain data from the Space Based Infrared System as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data […] More

  • USAF Taps KBRwyle for Air and Space Systems Engineering Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Taps KBRwyle for Air and Space Systems Engineering Support

    KBR‘s government services unit has received a 54-month, $32.3 million U.S. Air Force task order to provide engineering assistance in upgrading the service branch’s air and space systems. Under the Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities effort, KBRwyle will help develop and integrate space, intelligence, and air and missile defense capacities, the company said Monday. Services under the order will include research, […] More

  • Air Force, HRL Laboratories Partner to Test 3D-Printed Materials for Hypersonic Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, HRL Laboratories Partner to Test 3D-Printed Materials for Hypersonic Aircraft

    The U.S. Air Force and HRL Laboratories have entered an agreement to test materials produced through additive manufacturing, or three-dimensional printing, for potential future use in hypersonic aircraft. Scientists from the Air Force Research Laboratory tested silicon oxycarbide materials that HRL manufactured using 3D printing technology and pre-ceramic resin chemistry, the Defense Logistics Agency said Wednesday. The Cooperative Research […] More

  • Boeing Completes Fuel On-Load Tests for KC-46 Tanker Supplemental Type Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Completes Fuel On-Load Tests for KC-46 Tanker Supplemental Type Certification

    Boeing has completed fuel on-load tests needed for Federal Aviation Administration certification of the company’s refueling tanker aircraft. KC-46 received 540,600 pounds of fuel and performed 68 contacts with other tankers as part of the pre-Supplemental Type Certificate test series, Boeing said Wednesday. The recent flight test lasted for three hours and forty eight minutes, during which a KC-46 transferred […] More

  • Frequency Electronics to Help Air Force Develop Space-Qualified Atomic Clock - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frequency Electronics to Help Air Force Develop Space-Qualified Atomic Clock

    Frequency Electronics has received two contracts worth $37.2 million combined from the U.S. Air Force to build and demonstrate an atomic clock for space systems. The company will help the service branch create an atomic frequency standard for timing applications and test a space-qualified clock through a flight experiment as part of a $19.4 million contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Cubic Lands Spot on Potential $496M USAF Comms R&D Contract; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Lands Spot on Potential $496M USAF Comms R&D Contract; Mike Twyman Comments

    A Cubic Corp. business unit has secured a position under a potential 10-year, $496 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to research and develop communication technologies. Cubic Mission Solutions will perform research, development, test and evaluation activities to deliver new technologies for existing and future communication architectures, Cubic said Thursday. CMS President Mike Twyman said the company will […] More