Tag Archives: U.S. Air Force

Washington, D.C.-based company SignalFrame has received $50K in grants from the U.S. Air Force to explore the potential military applications of a technology designed to track the location and identity of over 500M peripheral devices, Wall Street Journal reported Nov. 27.

Applied Technology Associates has landed a $29.1M contract from the U.S. Air Force to deliver onboard spacecraft self-sensing, attribution and autonomous capabilities in support of tactical and strategic missions.

An Akima subsidiary has landed a potential six-year, $9M contract under the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services vehicle to help the U.S. Air Force maintain and sustain a platform used by the Department of Defense to manage the condition of military working dogs.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket venture has appointed seven government and industry veterans to its newly formed board of advisers that will counsel the firm's leadership team on space business matters.

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.

Spaceflight has agreed to field an operational fuel depot aboard a Falcon 9 rocket to the Earth's orbit in 2021 as part of an agreement with Orbit Fab, C4ISRNET reported Monday.

Tyndall Air Force Base has hosted a demonstration of a Cubic-made software suite designed to analyze kinetic and non-kinetic effects during training exercises. Cubic said Wednesday its Simplified, Planning, Execution, Analysis, Reconstruction or SPEAR suite facilitated user experience across more than 75 aircraft at the Checkered Flag 21-1 exercise.

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.

A team comprised of Cambridge and TSS Solutions will update technology subassemblies of the Air Combat Command's AN/TPS-70 radar system under a service life extension task order.

Black Sage has received a contract of an undisclosed sum to deliver a counter-unmanned aircraft system technology for an electromagnetic weapon designed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to defend air bases.

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.

The U.S. Army is slated to host an industry event Dec. 1 to determine and address concerns in an Air Force-led joint all-domain command and control initiative, Inside Defense reported Friday. The virtual roundtable discussion will provide an overview of Project Convergence and share details in line with a planned sensor-to-shooter demonstration in 2021.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, November 16, 2020 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) helps the U.S. Air Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintain systems for analyzing weather conditions to ensure the safety of satellite launch missions, GovCon Wire reported Nov. 9.

The U.S. Air Force is looking for potential sources of engineering and technical capabilities to implement cloud-based applications into propulsion systems.

Leidos has landed a $10.3M contract from the U.S. Air Force for experimental and predicative capabilities needed to help determine the effects of high power continuous-wave lasers on various materials and address existing and future laser systems.