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  • Curtiss-Wright to Produce Aerospace Instrumentation Tech for Air Force Test Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright to Produce Aerospace Instrumentation Tech for Air Force Test Center

    Curtiss-Wright has received a potential $86 million contract to produce aerospace instrumentation tools to support data acquisition program at a U.S. Air Force test center. The company said Tuesday it will provide network switches, data acquisition systems, recorders, telemetry systems and ground station systems to the Edwards Air Force Base’s AFTC as part of the High Speed Data Acquisition […] More

  • Air Force Tests Raytheon-Built Military GPS Receiver Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Tests Raytheon-Built Military GPS Receiver Tech

    The U.S. Air Force has conducted a military-code global positioning system test using a Raytheon receiver technology designed to facilitate connectivity between multiple vehicle platforms and the service branch’s GPS network. Raytheon said Tuesday its MAGR-2K-M receiver was tested onboard a B-2 Spirit bomber aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, California, as part of a government-led GPS modernization initiative. The effort aims to update […] More

  • Lockheed, USAF Test Norwegian F-35A Drag Chute - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, USAF Test Norwegian F-35A Drag Chute

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have begun to test the performance of a drag chute that is designed for installation on Norway’s F-35A conventional takeoff and landing aircraft. The company said Monday the initial icy runway ground test at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska is part of a certification process for the Norwegian F-35A drag chute and […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Completes Free Flight Test on Dream Chaser Test Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Completes Free Flight Test on Dream Chaser Test Spacecraft

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has conducted a free flight test of a spacecraft designed to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract. The Dream Chaser test spacecraft was air-lifted by a Columbia 234-UT Chinook helicopter before the space vehicle performed a pre-planned flight and autonomous landing operation […] More

  • University of Kansas to Help Develop Long-Range Airborne Comms Capacity on Narrow Bandwidth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    University of Kansas to Help Develop Long-Range Airborne Comms Capacity on Narrow Bandwidth

    The University of Kansas’ school of engineering has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Spectrum Consortium to build a long-range communications capacity that will work to support testing on airborne vehicles. The project seeks technology designed to support communications at low signal-to-noise ratios for airborne vehicle tests at various government facilities, KU said […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force, NAVAIR Put KC-46 Tanker Aircraft Through Electromagnetic Field Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Air Force, NAVAIR Put KC-46 Tanker Aircraft Through Electromagnetic Field Test

    Boeing, the U.S. Air Force and the Naval Air Systems Command have collaborated on electromagnetic testing of a company-built KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft. The team assessed the tanker’s capacity to operate through electromagnetic fields generated by radars, radio towers and other systems, Boeing said Thursday. “The KC-46 tanker is protected by various hardening and shielding technologies […] More

  • MDA Seeks Industry Info on High Altitude, Long Endurance UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Seeks Industry Info on High Altitude, Long Endurance UAS

    The Missile Defense Agency has posted a request for information on a high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft system that can provide support in the 2023 timeframe. MDA said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that the UAS should be able to carry a high energy laser system payload to high altitudes to mature boost phase intercept, or the capacity to destroy missiles while […] More

  • Lockheed, Calspan, Air Force Conduct Manned-Unmanned Teaming Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Calspan, Air Force Conduct Manned-Unmanned Teaming Demo

    Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works business, Calspan, the U.S. Air Force‘s Test Pilot School and the Air Force Research Laboratory have conducted a manned-unmanned teaming exercise in a push to help increase warfighters’ combat efficiency and effectiveness. Lockheed said Monday the Have Raider II demonstration at Edwards Air Force Base involved an experimental F-16 aircraft which acted as a surrogate […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Continue Test Range Instrumentation Tech Production for US Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Continue Test Range Instrumentation Tech Production for US Military

    Rockwell Collins will continue to support the production of a military test range instrumentation system under a two-year, $21.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide a second production lot of the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System for deployment at Air Force, Army and Navy test ranges. DoD awarded a $31 million contract […] More

  • UTC Subsidiary to Sustain Air Force F119 Engines Under $69M Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC Subsidiary to Sustain Air Force F119 Engines Under $69M Contract Modification

    A United Technologies Corp. subsidiary has been awarded a potential $68.7 contact modification for sustainment work on afterburning turbofan engines for the U.S. Air Force. Pratt and Whitney will offer necessary labor for the sustainment of F119 engines, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has obligated the full amount of the modification from fiscal […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Potential Voice Comm System Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Potential Voice Comm System Sources

    The U.S. Air Force has begun to search for potential sources of a voice communication system for the military branch’s test center at Edwards AF Base in California. The service branch seeks to replace Edwards AFB’s Federated Edwards Digital Switch with a voice over internet protocol system, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday. A selected contractor will acquire, test, integrate and install […] More

  • Air Force Wraps Up Weapons Delivery Tests on Lockheed’s F-35; Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Wraps Up Weapons Delivery Tests on Lockheed’s F-35; Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan Comments

    An integrated test team within the U.S. Air Force has completed 25 weapons delivery and separation tests of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet. The F-35 ITF at Edwards Air Force Base in California dropped and fired a total of 30 weapons that include the AIM-120 medium-range air-to-air missile, Joint Direct Attack Munition, AIM-9X Sidewinder and the […] More