Tag Archives: Air National Guard

General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has collaborated with Ultra Electronics and an Air National Guard test unit to conduct an initial operational assessment of an airborne communications payload that was installed on an MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Christopher Kubasik, president and chief operating officer of L3Harris Technologies, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for his leadership during the merger of L3 Technologies and the Harris Corporation in 2019 as well as his efforts to advance military capabilities for the U.S. 

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has secured a contract of an undisclosed sum from the Air National Guard to provide detect and avoid systems for Block 1 and 9 variants of a remotely piloted aircraft.

Lockheed Martin and Robins Air Force Base have been honored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for their efforts in sustaining an electro-optic sensor designed to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

The U.S. Air Force has equipped Air National Guard F-16 jets with Northrop Grumman-built radars in a move to address a homeland defense requirement. Select F-16s at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland feature the AN/APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar technology that the service branch procured to meet a "joint operational need" identified by U.S. Northern Command, Northrop said Thursday.

A Concurrent Technologies Corp. affiliate has been awarded a contract to help the Air National Guard address occupational and environmental health risks. CTC said Wednesday its Enterprise Ventures Corp. subsidiary will work with 1st American Systems & Services, the prime contractor on the effort to assist ANG in controlling and eliminating hazards.

The U.S. Air Force has partnered with Microsoft to field a workspace tool that will enable the service branch’s members to access cloud-based services.

Alex Sutherland, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, has joined Liberty IT Solutions as Salesforce practice director.

L3Harris Technologies has tapped Collins Aerospace to install an integrated avionics platform onto the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard’s C-130H Hercules aircraft fleet.

A Leonardo-built active expendable decoy has been chosen by the Department of Defense to conduct foreign comparison tests with the U.S. Air National Guard, AIN Online reported Monday.

Northrop Grumman has received milestone C approval to enter the production phase for a pod-based missile detection, tracking and jamming system designed for the KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft.

The Department of Defense aims to include $1.2B in funding in its fiscal year 2020 budget request to support the acquisition of the newest versions of the F-15 aircraft, Bloomberg reported Friday. DoD officials said the agency hopes to buy 12 of the new Boeing-built F-15X fighter aircraft for the …

The U.S. Air Force has chosen Rockwell Collins to equip the F-16 jets with an updated receiver technology designed to counter GPS threats. Rockwell Collins said Friday it will provide Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receivers for the Air Force Reserve’s and Air National Guard’s F-16 crews to navigate and operate in contested, electromagnetic environments. The company noted …

American Systems has received a five-year, $27M task order to engineer systems and maintain software of the Air National Guard’s C-130 multimission crew training assets. The company said Wednesday it will also provide program management, operations, qualification and test support to the MMCT system support center at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph …

The California Air National Guard received its first combat search and rescue tanker aircraft developed by Lockheed Martin on April 5. Lockheed said Friday the 129th Rescue Wing will operate the HC-130J Combat King II from the Moffett Air National Guard Base in California. The 129th RQW intends to replace its existing fleet of MC-130P …