The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a contract to complete the incorporation of automatic dependent surveillance and broadcast capability into the company’s APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe transponder suite. Raytheon said the transponders support the Federal Aviation Administration‘s NextGen plan, intended to transform the National Airspace System. The company reported the process is scheduled for [...]
The Air Force is extending a program that provides agencies with contracts for communications equipment and services. The program, Network Centric Solutions, works with such companies as Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics Corp, among many others. The current extension will run through until September 2012, while the new contract runs [...]
What do two U.S. Air Force officers do upon retirement? If you’re Phil Soucy and Tom McMahan, you start your own company. Combining their vast experience in stealth technology, low observables — aircraft like the B-2 and F-117 — and systems engineering, the two launched Modern Technology Solutions, Inc., in 1993. Sixteen years later, the [...]
It’s great, but is it safe? That’s been the question for Web 2.0, as the U.S. Air Force has eyed the technology in the hopes of boosting its missions around the world Now, it seems, Web 2.0 is getting a chance … cautiously. “The new techniques, including blogs, wikis and personal profiles, are coming out [...]
