The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Simulators Division awarded $10M in AFWERX Small Business Innovative Research Phase II contracts to 10 companies selected through a two-day pitch day to identify technologies that could help improve aircrew training, the service said Monday.
Read More »USAF Needs Industry Input on GPS Receiver for Joint Air to Surface Missile
The U.S. Air Force seeks market information on potential GPS receivers for the Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile. The service branch said Monday in a SAM notice it needs to develop a strategy for the procurement of an M-code GPS receiver under the JASSM program.
Read More »Vertex Aerospace Wins $66M Air Force Base Supply Contract for T-1A Aircraft
Vertex Aerospace will operate and maintain base supplies for 178 T-1A Jayhawk jet trainers used by the Air Education and Training Command under a $65.6M contract from the U.S. Air Force.
Read More »Air Force Needs Market Info on Future ISR Technologies
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center seeks market information on signal and geospatial intelligence technologies that would transmit information to support rapid targeting. AFLCMC said Monday in a SAM notice that it requires these on-platform SIGINT and GEOINT technologies to address requirements under the country's Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Dominance Flight Plan and National Defense Strategy.
Read More »KBR Receives $88M Task Order to Help Maintain USAF F-16 Fleet; Byron Bright Quoted
KBR has received a five-year, $88M task order from the U.S. Air Force's Life Cycle Management Center to support sustainment engineering of F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole jets.
Read More »IndraSoft Secures Air Force DevSecOps Basic Ordering Agreement; Raj Lingam Quoted
IndraSoft has been selected to provide DevSecOps services to the U.S. Air Force's cyber software factory as part of a five-year basic ordering agreement.
Read More »Boeing to Update Air Force Early-Warning Aircraft’s Comm Tech
Boeing has secured a six-year, $50M contract to update the U.S. Air Force's airborne warning and control system with an internet protocol-based communication technology.
Read More »Jacobs Wins $455M Contract to Support Air Force Mission Systems; Steve Arnette Quoted
Jacobs was awarded the potential six-year, $455 million Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II) by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the company announced Wednesday.
Read More »USAF Posts Maritime Strike Weapon RFI
The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on the availability of kinetic systems that could engage maritime surface vessels. An RFI notice posted Thursday says the AF Life Cycle Management Center's armament systems development division will collect and use industry input to plan a trade space analysis of maritime strike weapons.
Read More »AFLCMC Releases RFI on Cyber Research Program Support
The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has issued a request for information on potential sources of cyber services and operational technologies to support the center’s research and development activities.
Read More »USAF Taps Northrop to Create Open-Architecture Aircraft Comms Gateway
Northrop Grumman has secured a contract to develop a prototype for an open system that will facilitate communications and translation between military aircraft platforms.
Read More »KBR to Help Air Force Secure Weapons Systems; Byron Bright Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 1, 2020 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) received a $26.8M task order to help the U.S. Air Force develop frameworks to secure operations and communications of the branch's weapon systems, ExecutiveGov said March 23.
Read More »Slingshot Aerospace Gets Air Force SBIR Contract, Venture Capital Funds for AI-Based Tech
Slingshot Aerospace has received a $1.5M Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and another $1.5M in funds from venture capital firms ATX Venture Partners and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund to accelerate the development and deployment of an artificial intelligence-based platform. Slingshot EDGE is designed to help warfighters glean insights from data using AI and provide them situational awareness capability in order to facilitate the decision-making process on the battlefield, the company said Thursday.
Read More »Boeing Gets $84M USAF Contract Modification for F-15 Aircraft Core Processor Delivery
Boeing has received a two-year, $84M contract modification to continue providing computing systems that support the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 fighter jets.
Read More »Rolls-Royce Awarded $69M USAF Contract for Aircraft Engine Sustainment Support
Rolls-Royce has secured a $69M contract to help the U.S. Air Force sustain components of the T56 aircraft engine.
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