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  • Lockheed, Mahindra Open C-130J Training Center for India's Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Mahindra Open C-130J Training Center for India’s Air Force

    Lockheed Martin and Mahindra Defence Systems have opened a C-130J Super Hercules training center at a military air base in Hindon, India. The facility is equipped with a full-motion simulator built to help Indian C-130J airmen train on how to operate the special operations aircraft the country’s air force bought from Lockheed in 2011, Mahindra said […] More

  • CACI Gets $51M Air Force Software Devt Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Gets $51M Air Force Software Devt Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has won a three-year, $51 million task order under the Network-Centric Solutions-2 contract vehicle to provide software development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s 90th Cyberspace Operations Squadron. The company said Wednesday it will also continue to help 90th COS manage software for the Air, Space, and Cyberspace Constructive Environment–Information Operations Simulation suite. CACI President and […] More

  • BlackSky to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Cloud-Based GEOINT Broker Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackSky to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Cloud-Based GEOINT Broker Platform

    Spaceflight Industries‘ BlackSky division has received a two-year, $16.4 million contract to build a cloud-based geospatial intelligence broker platform for the Air Force Research Laboratory. BlackSky will develop the platform to help government users collect and analyze GEOINT data from multiple data sources worldwide, Spaceflight said Tuesday. “Easy access and streamlined delivery of timely and relevant […] More

  • Rolls-Royce to Continue Sustainment Support for Air Force C-130J Propulsion Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce to Continue Sustainment Support for Air Force C-130J Propulsion Systems

    Rolls-Royce has received a $40 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Air Force sustain propulsion systems of the service branch’s C-130J transport aircraft fleet. The Defense Department said Monday that Rolls-Royce will provide inventory control point management, sustaining engineering, repair, sustainment and technical data support services under the modification. The Air Force Life Cycle […] More

  • Lockheed Secures Air Force F-16 Engineering, Technical Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures Air Force F-16 Engineering, Technical Services Contract

    Lockheed Martin has landed a potential $47.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform engineering and technical services in support of F-16 fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday Lockheed aims to expand the technical expertise of F-16 system maintainers through the contract. Work will occur in Utah, Ohio, Arizona, South Carolina, Bahrain, Pakistan, Chile, Jordan, […] More

  • Mike Lyons: Northrop Pitches Global Hawk UAV to Address F-22, F-35 Comms Gap - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Lyons: Northrop Pitches Global Hawk UAV to Address F-22, F-35 Comms Gap

    Northrop Grumman has proposed the use of its RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle for the U.S. Air Force to bridge a communications gap between the F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor aircraft platforms, Defense News reported. The report said the service branch’s F-35 and F-22 planes currently are unable to exchange information because the former uses the […] More

  • Harris to Supply EW Transmitter for Air Force C-130J Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Supply EW Transmitter for Air Force C-130J Aircraft

    BAE Systems has awarded Harris a contract to provide electronic warfare transmitter technology for integration into the U.S. Air Force‘s MC-130J Commando II and AC-130J Ghostrider aircraft platforms. Harris said Wednesday its phased array antennas will offer transmit capacity for BAE’s electronic warfare countermeasure systems. In 2016, BAE and Northrop Grumman secured separate contracts worth up […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support Northrop's Ground-Based ICBM Risk Reduction Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Support Northrop’s Ground-Based ICBM Risk Reduction Work

    Aerojet Rocketdyne will provide propulsion system support to aid Northrop Grumman‘s technology maturation and risk reduction efforts under the U.S. Air Force‘s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinentinal ballistic missile program. Sacramento, California-based Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday it will study propulsion options and develop early designs that meet Northrop’s ICBM configurations. The Air Force awarded a $349.1 million contract […] More

  • Air Force Eyes IBM Statistical Analysis Software Package for Air University - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Eyes IBM Statistical Analysis Software Package for Air University

    The U.S. Air Force intends to award a sole-source acquisition contract to IBM for the supply the military branch’s Air University with a software package designed to help users analyze statistical data. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice published Friday that Air University needs an enterprise-level, general purpose statistical analysis software for use across […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Help Sustain Avionics System of Air Force KC-10 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Help Sustain Avionics System of Air Force KC-10 Fleet

    Rockwell Collins has received a potential $10.7 million contract to provide sustaining engineering services for the avionics system of the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of KC-10 tanker aircraft. The company will perform work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and is scheduled to finish by Feb. 17, 2027, the Defense Department said Friday. The […] More

  • CACI Gets Air Force Contract for Software Modification & Configuration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Gets Air Force Contract for Software Modification & Configuration

    CACI International has received a $15 million contract to modify and configure new commercial software in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s NexGen IT information technology modernization program. The Defense Department said Thursday CACI will perform contract work in Florida, Ohio, Texas, North Carolina and New Jersey through March 12, 2019. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center obligated $7,654,981 […] More

  • Lockheed to Develop Military Code Software for GPS Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Develop Military Code Software for GPS Satellites

    Lockheed Martin has received a $45.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide military-code early use software for current and future global positioning system satellites. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s space systems business will develop the software for the service branch to task, monitor and signal M-code programs in space. DoD noted the […] More