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  • Triumph Named Component Supplier for Boeing T-X Trainer Aircraft Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Triumph Named Component Supplier for Boeing T-X Trainer Aircraft Offering

    Boeing has chosen Triumph Group as a key supplier for the aerospace and defense company’s trainer aircraft offering to the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X program. Triumph’s Red Oak, Texas-based Aerospace Structures business would supply wing, vertical tail and horizontal tail structures if the military branch picks Boeing as T-X primary contractor, Boeing said Friday. Boeing announced […] More

  • Leidos Secures Air Force Threat Warning System R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Air Force Threat Warning System R&D Contract

    Leidos has won a potential five-year, $23.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop integrated threat warning systems. The Defense Department said Friday Leidos will research, build and demonstrate integrated threat warning platform prototypes as well as advance electro-optical test and developmental risk reduction measures. Work will occur at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio through Sept. […] More

  • Report: Boeing, Lockheed Bid on Air Force UH-1N Helicopter Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing, Lockheed Bid on Air Force UH-1N Helicopter Replacement Program

    Boeing and Lockheed Martin have submitted bids to the U.S. Air Force for a program to replace the service branch’s fleet of UH-1N Huey helicopters, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The Boeing-Leonardo team offered the MH-139 helicopter as its entry for the UH-1N replacement competition as the military branch looks to procure 84 aircraft through the […] More

  • Raytheon to Supply Projectors for BAE-Built F-22 Digital Head-Up Displays - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Supply Projectors for BAE-Built F-22 Digital Head-Up Displays

    Raytheon has been chosen to deliver projectors for digital head-up displays that BAE Systems will install aboard the U.S. Air Force‘s F-22 Raptor aircraft. The Digital Light Engine HUDs will replace traditional analog displays on the fighter aircraft and help pilots gain situational awareness, Raytheon said Tuesday. Lockheed Martin awarded BAE a contract in January to modernize F-22 HUDs for the […] More

  • Retired Air Force Gen. Ronald Keys Appointed to SPA Board; William Vantine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Retired Air Force Gen. Ronald Keys Appointed to SPA Board; William Vantine Comments

    Ronald Keys, owner of management consulting services company RK Solution Enterprises and a retired U.S. Air Force general, has joined the board of directors at Systems Planning and Analysis. SPA said Keys helped provide operational context for the Alexandria, Virginia-based contractor’s support work at the Office of the Secretary of Defense and pilot experience-level research efforts […] More

  • Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program

    Engility has won a five-year, $49 million contract to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s weapon systems testing technology program. The Defense Department said Friday Engility will develop multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling tools as well as help the Air Force build and transition weapon systems under the Kinetic Kill Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Technology […] More

  • Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton Joins Boulder Crest Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton Joins Boulder Crest Board

    Textron Systems President and CEO Lisa Atherton has joined the board of directors at Bluemont, Virginia-based nonprofit organization Boulder Crest. Atherton will work with Board Chairman Ken Falke, Vice Chairman Fred Malek, Executive Director Dusty Baxley and 15 other directors, Boulder Crest said Monday. The nonprofit provides support to military veterans who are dealing with post-traumatic […] More

  • Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System

    Northrop Grumman has secured a potential three-year, $37 million task order to develop and deploy a cyber operations system for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it will continue to develop, integrate, field and sustain the Cyber Mission Platform under the contract, which has a one-year base period valued at $9.4 million. The Air Force […] More

  • SpaceX Launches Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Launches Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission

    SpaceX launched the fifth mission of the U.S. Air Force‘s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. OTV-5 lifted off at 10:00 am Eastern time aboard a Falcon 9 rocket equipped with a first stage booster that landed at Cape Canaveral AF Station after stage separation, according to SpaceX. Brig. Gen. Wayne […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts Launch Simulation Test on Second Air Force GPS III Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts Launch Simulation Test on Second Air Force GPS III Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has completed a launch simulation test on the second GPS III satellite that the company built for the U.S. Air Force. Lockheed said Tuesday the GPS III SV02 satellite was hit with a 140-decibel sound during the acoustic test to simulate launch conditions and identify parts that were not properly attached. GPS III SV02 is […] More

  • Orbital ATK, Air Force Enter Military Aircraft Sustainment Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK, Air Force Enter Military Aircraft Sustainment Partnership

    Orbital ATK has partnered with the U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center to support the country’s military aircraft through complementary, composite aerostructure design, manufacturing and inspection services. Both parties aim to address future composite aerostructure requirements on new aircraft types as well as collaborate to maintain, repair and overhaul current platforms as part of the public-private partnership, […] More

  • DXC’s Earl Matthews: Creation of Separate Space Corps Could Distract Govt From USAF, DoD Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DXC’s Earl Matthews: Creation of Separate Space Corps Could Distract Govt From USAF, DoD Issues

    Earl Matthews, vice president of DXC Technology‘s enterprise security solutions group, has said the establishment of a new space-focused military branch under a House bill could divert the U.S. government from issues facing the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Department. “The focus on space needs to be squarely on situational awareness: our ability to monitor and […] More