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Justin Shehane was promoted to the role of chief operating officer at Precision Platform Solutions, where he previously served as senior director of project management. The company said Monday Shehane will work on customer advocacy and relationship management, account planning, sales support and consultative selling, among his other responsibilities. The executive moved to the industry […] More
Brig. Gen. Heath Collins, program executive officer for weapons, said the U.S. Air Force is preparing to select a contractor to develop a hypersonic cruise missile by the end of September, Breaking Defense reported Friday. “Later this summer or later fall, given all this data coming together, will be when we would be looking to […] More
Lockheed Martin has completed the production of the first AN/TPY-4 radar, a multimission system that can detect existing and emerging threats and operate in contested radio frequency environments. TPY-4 is a software-defined radar system that is available in transportable and fixed variants and complies with open software, hardware and interface standards to facilitate integration, Lockheed […] More
Mattermost has received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract through the AFWERX program to further develop mission-specific capabilities of a collaboration platform for the U.S. Air Force. The company’s self-hosted, open source collaboration platform enables government agencies to better coordinate team members, mission-critical processes and tools in support of the Advanced Battle Management […] More
Boeing has introduced a digitally designed trainer jet that is set for delivery to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it developed and tested the T-7A Red Hawk aircraft using digital engineering, agile software development and advanced manufacturing. The trainer jet, which comes with open architecture software to accommodate future mission requirements, features […] More
The Department of the Air Force has selected the Boeing-built E-7 Wedgetail aircraft to replace part of its fleet of E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system planes, the service reported Tuesday. The military branch said the selection was based on market research and that the E-7 Wedgetail platform could meet the Department of Defense’s […] More
The U.S. Space Force is soliciting industry insights on the draft master specifications for the Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Simplified Acquisition of Base Engineering Requirements program. The service plans to compete the SABER program as a single- or multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price task orders and as a set-aside effort for small vendors certified under […] More
The U.S. Air Force is leveraging digital twins to optimize the acquisition process as part of a larger, Defense Department-wide digital transformation strategy that uses digital engineering and advanced modeling technology to achieve data centricity. Part of this strategy is developing product lifecycle management, or PLM, systems that can link multiple facets of the acquisition […] More
As the Department of the Air Force embarks on its digital transformation journey, the service is looking at how digital twins and other digital engineering tools can simultaneously bolster its high-end weapons systems while rapidly delivering weapons to warfighters in theater. Brig. Gen. Heath Collins, program executive officer for weapons and director of the armament directorate […] More
U.S. Air Force Col. Jason Bartolomei said the service has incorporated digital twin technology into the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program starting with the conceptual design stage to the engineering and manufacturing development phase, Air Force Magazine reported Friday. “What the digital environment allowed us to do was to bring our multi disciplinary engineering models […] More
The joint venture of Boeing and Textron‘s Bell subsidiary received a third U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey to perform modifications on a key component that supports vertical takeoff and landing functions of the aircraft. Bell Boeing is working with the 727th Special Operations Aircraft Maintenance Squadron to update the tiltrotor military aircraft’s nacelle, Air Force […] More
Executive Mosaic has included Chris Brady, president of General Dynamics Mission Systems, in the 2022 class of the Wash100 Award recipients in recognition of his leadership in driving the company’s autonomy innovation and space domain expansion. This represents the third consecutive year that Brady has won the Wash100 Award, which is annually presented to the […] More
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