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  • Report: C2 Technologies Awarded USAF C-17 Training Subcontract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: C2 Technologies Awarded USAF C-17 Training Subcontract

    C2 Technologies will support training programs and systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s C-17 transport aircraft as part of a potential 6.5-year, $986M contract the service branch awarded to Boeing, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. The report said C2 could receive at least $100M as a subcontractor on the project and plans to help the service branch […] More

  • Lockheed to Build, Test F-35 Logistics Info Security Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build, Test F-35 Logistics Info Security Tool

    Lockheed Martin has received a $26.1M order from the U.S. Navy to design, build, integrate and test a security tool for an information technology system F-35 operators use to sustain aircraft systems. The company will perform non-recurring engineering work on the security architecture of the F-35 Autonomic Logistics Information System and the ALIS Sovereign Data Management platform for the Navy, U.S. […] More

  • Report: USAF-Lockheed Contracts Likely to Boost Hypersonic Dev’t Work in Orlando, Fla. - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: USAF-Lockheed Contracts Likely to Boost Hypersonic Dev’t Work in Orlando, Fla.

    Lockheed Martin could hire more employees and collaborate with small businesses in Orlando, Fla., to support hypersonic weapon development work under two U.S. Air Force contracts worth up to $1.4B combined, the Orlando Business Journal reported Friday. Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business secured on Aug. 13 a potential $480M contract to build an air-launched […] More

  • Forcepoint to Develop Insider Threat Detection Tool for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forcepoint to Develop Insider Threat Detection Tool for Air Force

    Forcepoint’s federal business has secured a three-year, $9.1M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide a tool for the U.S. Air Force to monitor user activity on the service branch’s classified network. USAF asked the cybersecurity firm to develop a user activity monitoring technology that will work to detect, thwart and address insider threats, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • SSL to Develop Satcom Antenna Tech Prototypes for Air Force; Richard White Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL to Develop Satcom Antenna Tech Prototypes for Air Force; Richard White Quoted

    The Space Enterprise Consortium has chosen Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary to develop antenna subsystems for the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center to secure tactical satellite communications. SSL said Thursday it aims to create, analyze and test subsystem prototypes as part of a military satcom resiliency demonstration effort under the contract from the Advanced Technology International-managed consortium. Richard White, president of […] More

  • Lockheed-KAI Team Submits Final Bid for Air Force T-X Trainer Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-KAI Team Submits Final Bid for Air Force T-X Trainer Program

    Lockheed Martin and Korea Aerospace Industries have submitted a final proposal for the U.S. Air Force’s $16B T-X trainer aircraft contract, The Korea Times reported Thursday. The Lockheed-KAI team intends to offer the T-50A jet trainer, which was unveiled in 2016, to succeed the service’s T-38C plane. The latest bid will possibly open more opportunities for […] More

  • Boeing to Refresh Air Force C-32 Aircraft Interior - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Refresh Air Force C-32 Aircraft Interior

    Boeing has landed a $16.1 million contract to provide engineering services for a U.S. Air Force project to update the interior of the C-32 military passenger transportation aircraft. The company will refresh C-32’s interior appearance to resemble the VC-25A aircraft’s presidential section and replace the double-seat configuration with a triple-seat configuration aft of Door 3, the Defense Department said […] More

  • Air Force Issues RFI on Enterprise Service Desk, End User Devices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues RFI on Enterprise Service Desk, End User Devices

    The U.S. Air Force has posted a request for information on enterprise service desk and end user devices as the service branch aims to increase mission effectiveness with the use of commercial technology platforms. USAF said Aug. 2 in a FedBizOpps notice it will explore organizational, business and technical process tools that can support the service branch’s […] More

  • AAR to Customize Shelters for Air Force Readiness Training Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AAR to Customize Shelters for Air Force Readiness Training Program

    AAR has received a $2 million task order to supply 20-foot and 9-foot variants of TFI shelters for ground combat readiness training of U.S. Air Force security forces. The company said Wednesday it will manufacture lightweight shelters for the service branch to store weapons repair stations and armories. Jeffery Jackson, vice president of business development at AAR’s mobility systems […] More

  • Air Force Issues Draft RFP for Light Attack Aircraft Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues Draft RFP for Light Attack Aircraft Program

    The U.S. Air Force has issued a draft solicitation for the Light Attack Aircraft program as the service prepares to release the final request for proposals in December. The draft RFP comes after it wrapped up the Light Attack Experiment’s second phase that involved aircraft offerings from Textron and the Sierra Nevada–Embraer team, the Air Force said […] More

  • Frank St. John: Lockheed Kicks Off Dev't Work on Two Hypersonic Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frank St. John: Lockheed Kicks Off Dev’t Work on Two Hypersonic Programs

    Frank St. John, executive vice president of missiles and fire control business at Lockheed Martin, told Defense News in an interview published Monday that the company has begun work on the hypersonic conventional strike weapon and hypersonic glider. Lockheed won a potential $928 million contract from the U.S. Air Force in April to design and build an […] More

  • Booz Allen to Help Air Force Develop Cyber Tech Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Help Air Force Develop Cyber Tech Platforms

    Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential five-year, $47.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop technology platforms to support the military service’s operational cyber resiliency initiatives. The Defense Department said Monday the company will help USAF build a system to address cyber assurance requirements and associated mission programs of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s […] More