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  • Field Aerospace to Modernize Air Force T-1A Avionics Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Field Aerospace to Modernize Air Force T-1A Avionics Suite

    Field Aerospace has won a potential $18.5 million contact to update the avionics suite of 208 T-1A Jayhawk aircraft and trainers for the U.S. Air Force. USAF asked the company to replace avionics of 16 flight trainers, 14 part task trainers and 178 standard aircraft in the service branch’s T-1A fleet, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The AF Life Cycle […] More

  • Garmin to Supply Aviator Watches for Air Force U-2 pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Garmin to Supply Aviator Watches for Air Force U-2 pilots

    The U.S. Air Force has selected Garmin‘s international unit to supply aviator watches for pilots of the Lockheed Martin-built U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Garmin said Wednesday its D2 Charlie aviator watch is designed to serve as a back-up navigation system in the cockpit through the delivery of global navigation support, moving maps and other features. The company expects the Air Force […] More

  • DARPA, Air Force Conduct Flight Test of BAE-Built Battle Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Air Force Conduct Flight Test of BAE-Built Battle Mgmt Software

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force have tested a BAE Systems-made on-board software that works to deliver information to operators and pilots in environments where communications can be disrupted. BAE said Tuesday DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory conducted an 11-day flight test of the semi-autonomous Distributed Battle Management software. DBM is designed to […] More

  • Air Force to Complete Windows 10 Transition in March - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Complete Windows 10 Transition in March

    The U.S. Air Force has announced it expects to complete Microsoft Windows 10 operating system transition by March 31 to meet requirements mandated by the Defense Department. The service branch said Tuesday it will decommission all systems not updated to Windows 10 by the deadline. The USAF will also have to replace the many computer assets within the […] More

  • Telos VP Paul Capasso Named to AFC4A Cyberspace Operations & Support Hall of Fame - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos VP Paul Capasso Named to AFC4A Cyberspace Operations & Support Hall of Fame

    Paul Capasso, a 33-year U.S. Air Force veteran and vice president of strategic programs at Telos, has been selected for the Air Force Command, Control, Communications and Computers Association’s Cyberspace Operations and Support Hall of Fame. The retired major general continued to support multiple efforts at USAF and the Defense Department after he retired from military […] More

  • Lockheed Rolls Out 400th C-130J Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Rolls Out 400th C-130J Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin has delivered its 400th C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft to the U.S. Air Force on Friday. The aircraft comes in the MC-130J Commando II Special Operations variant and is assigned to the Air Force’s Special Operations Command, the company said Monday. The 400th C-130J is also the 13th MC-130J to be modified into an AC-130J […] More

  • Air Force Research Lab, NextFlex Collaborate to Develop 'Flexible' Circuit System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Research Lab, NextFlex Collaborate to Develop ‘Flexible’ Circuit System

    The Air Force Research Laboratory has collaborated with a public-private manufacturing consortium to create operational prototypes of a circuit board system in efforts to accelerate the development of smart technologies. AFRL said Thursday it worked with NextFlex: America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Institute to develop Arduino integrated circuit systems that are designed to be programmed through open-source software. […] More

  • Lockheed Taps BAE to Update UAE F-16 Head-Up Displays - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps BAE to Update UAE F-16 Head-Up Displays

    BAE Systems has secured a contract from Lockheed Martin to modernize head-up displays of the United Arab Emirates’ F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. The British defense contractor said Thursday it will replace the fleet’s analog HUDs with digital displays using its Digital Light Engine technology. Lockheed received a potential $1.6 billion order from UAE in November 2017 to upgrade the […] More

  • NASA to Test Deep Space Navigation Tech Aboard General Atomics Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Test Deep Space Navigation Tech Aboard General Atomics Spacecraft

    NASA plans to test the accuracy of its instrument that is designed to support deep space navigation aboard a General Atomics spacecraft. The space agency said Tuesday its Deep Space Atomic Clock will be launched later this year as a hosted payload on General Atomic’s Orbital Test Bed spacecraft as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Technology […] More

  • SRC to Help Air Force Install C-130H Radar Warning Receiver Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRC to Help Air Force Install C-130H Radar Warning Receiver Tech

    Atlanta-based Scientific Research Center has won a $10.9 million contract to support the integration and installation of AN/ALR-69A(V) radar warning receiver technology on the U.S. Air Force‘s C-130H aircraft. Five offers were submitted to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center for the firm-fixed-price contract via a competitive acquisition process, the Defense Department said Wednesday. SRC will perform work at […] More

  • Microsoft Receives Air Force, ICE FedRAMP Authorizations for Azure Govt Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Receives Air Force, ICE FedRAMP Authorizations for Azure Govt Cloud

    Microsoft has obtained separate Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certifications from the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Tom Keane, a general manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted Jan. 24 that the Air Force gave Azure Government the Defense Department‘s Impact Level 4 ATO […] More

  • BAE Unit to Demo Munition Seeker Tech Via DARPA SECTR Program's 2nd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit to Demo Munition Seeker Tech Via DARPA SECTR Program’s 2nd Phase

    BAE Systems has won a $13.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to demonstrate a seeker technology for potential use in precision guided munitions as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program. The Defense Department said Wednesday that BAE’s information and electronic systems integration unit will perform work under the second phase of DARPA’s Seeker Cost […] More