Retired Col. Douglas Dudley Joins Akima as Director of Air Force Cyber Programs
Akima has appointed retired Col. Douglas Dudley as director of Air Force Cyber Programs under its Technology Solutions and Products Group to bolster cyber offerings supporting the Air Force. Dudley has more than 28 years of experience with Air Force data-driven IT programs, retiring as commander of the Air Force Network Integration Center. There, he
AT&T to Provide Air Force with 5G Services
AT&T has announced it will provide 5G services to Nellis Air Force Base in Southern Nevada. The company will also deliver FirstNet — the nationwide public safety communications platform — to eligible public safety personnel across Nellis. “We’re honored to equip Nellis with a comprehensive communications solution built to support innovative services such as 5G
Raytheon Wins $768M Air Force Deal
Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $768 million Defense Department contract in support of the U.S. Air Force. The noncompetitive fixed-price incentive contract is for Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile Production Lot 33. It provides for the production of the AMRAAM missiles, captive air training missiles, guidance sections, AMRAAM telemetry system, spares and other production engineering support
DCS Wins $93.4M Order with Air Force Helicopter Program Office
DCS Corp. has been awarded a $93.4 million prime task order to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance & Special Operations Forces Directorate’s Helicopter Program Office under the Air Force’s EPASS program. Under the 5-year task order, DCS will provide acquisition, engineering, scientific, research, and administrative support for USAF aircraft
Air Force Awards Cloud Contract to HumanTouch
HumanTouch has been chosen as one of multiple awardees to provide cloud services to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/HN, LevelUP and its developers. Services will include mechanisms to conduct continuous development, testing, staging and deploying into production — also known as DevOps/ DevSecOps. This contract aims to integrate and test at multiple classification
Podcast: A Conversation with Nicolas Chaillan, Chief Software Officer at U.S. Air Force
Nicolas Chaillan is the chief software officer for the U.S. Air Force and one of France’s youngest entrepreneurs, having started his CEO career at 15. He’s also a technology entrepreneur, software developer, cyber expert, inventor and pioneer of the computer language PHP. In this episode of Executive Perspective, Chaillan covers all of that and more,
Maxar to Develop Analysis Architecture for Air Force
Maxar Technologies has been contracted for $14.2 million to develop Red Wing, an automated, cloud-based geospatial intelligence analysis architecture for the Air Force Research Laboratory. Red Wing will facilitate analysis of challenging intelligence issues by automating time-consuming tasks. It will also leverage advanced exploitation and visualization services and edge node processing to further produce insights
Raytheon on Track for 2021 Operational Control System Delivery
Raytheon Co. has finished software and hardware development for its next-generation operational control system and has begun system integrating and testing. GPS OCX is the enhanced ground control segment of an effort led by the Air Force to modernize the United States’ GPS system. Raytheon leaders report the company is on track to meet the
Altamira Awarded as Prime Contractor on Air Force CDM A&T Services Deal
Altamira Technologies has been awarded as the prime contractor on a 10-year, $950 million U.S. Air Force Analytical and Technical Services contract. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract services the Secretary of the Air Force, Administrative Assistant’s Concept, Development, and Management Office, which manages high-priority projects to provide innovative solutions to the Air Force. This
ASRC Lands Air Force Contract
ASRC Communications Ltd. has been awarded a 12-year contract potentially worth $470 million for services supporting the Air Force. The Pacific Air Forces has awarded the organization, which is a subsidiary of ASRC Federal, the Installation Support Services for Geographically Separated Locations contract. Under the deal, ASRC Communications will provide a wide range of remote
Northrop Grumman Breaks Ground for Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent HQ
Northrop Grumman Corp. celebrated the groundbreaking of its future headquarters for its Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program near Hill Air Force Base in Utah, which is slated to add 2,500 jobs. The headquarters, scheduled to be completed by mid-2020, will support the workforce and nationwide team supporting the program as it plans to replace the
Raytheon’s Next-Gen Ground System Supports Air Force GPS Satellite Space Launch
The U.S. Air Force is using Raytheon’s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System for the launch of its second GPS III satellite into space, positioning the system for 10 days as it maneuvers the satellite into its final orbit. Known as the GPS OCX, the control system is an enhanced ground control segment of the country’s
Perspecta Snaps Up $162M Air Force Network Program Contract
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Perspecta with its Secret Internet Protocol Router Network Enterprise Modernization program, a deal with a 5-year performance period and $162 million max ceiling value. The program falls within the Air Force’s Enterprise Information Technology and Cyber Infrastructure Division of the Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks Program Executive Office.
Alion Delivers Asset Management Tool to Air Force
Alion Science and Technology has completed its first delivery and installation of the Defense Department-certified IT Asset Management tool to the U.S. Air Force. Alion introduced the Air Force Network Integration Center-approved ITAM product at the USAF Warrior Preparation Center in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The tool is used to manage over 2,500 nodes and 10,000
Alion Snags $48.6M Air Force Ordinance Systems R&D Deal
Engineering, IT and operational solutions company Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a $48.6 million task order by the U.S. Air Force Installation Contracting Agency. The deal was awarded under the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center Multi-Award Contract. The award provides research, development and engineering solutions for Pentagon ordnance challenges and supports the
Air Force Deploys AMERICAN SYSTEMS Mass Notification System
The Air Force has accepted a mass notification system that AMERICAN SYSTEMS developed in partnership with BlackBerry AtHoc and Microsoft Azure. The emergency enterprisewide mass notification system is designed to quickly send alerts at any time to all assigned forces in an emergency. In case of a natural disaster or serious threat of some other
Akima Wins $68M Aircraft Fuel Contract with Air Force
Akima Logistics Services, LLC has won a 7- contract from the U.S. Air Force valued $68 million to provide aircraft fuel and base supply services at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and for aircraft carrying members of the executive branch. The contract supports the Very Important Person Special Air Mission of the 11th Wing, the
Raytheon to Launch Global Installation of GPS OCX Upgraded Monitoring Station Receivers
Raytheon Co.’s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System program finished final qualification testing of the system’s modernized monitor station receivers. The receivers are slated to be installed globally beginning in August. GPS OCX is the enhanced ground control segment of a U.S. Air Force-led effort to refresh America’s GPS system. “The modernized receivers give GPS OCX
Unisys Wins $76M Air Force IT Support Contract
Unisys Corp. has been awarded a $76 million contract to provide digital workplace services to the U.S. Air Force to help the branch improve end-user experience and productivity at eight of its locations. The initiative is called the Air Force Enterprise Information Technology as a Service, and Unisys signed the agreement in the first quarter
Octo Nabs Agile Software Engineering Deal with Air Force’s Kessel Run Lab
Octo Consulting has been awarded a prime contract with the Kessel Run Experimentation Lab, which the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center manages. Octo will deliver agile software engineering expertise to allow the Kessel Run Experimentation Lab to quickly refactor legacy applications using microservices, application programming interfaces and highly responsive modern user interfaces. The
Air Force, Raytheon to Overhaul Space Command and Control System
The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and a host of tech firms led by Raytheon have come together to revamp the legacy Space Defense Operations Center, which tracks and monitors space junk. The Air Force plans to replace the SPADOC system with upgrades that will overhaul operations and provide greater space situational awareness and collision
Serco Snags $82M in NextGen IT Work with U.S. Air Force
Serco, Inc. has won a 5.5-year contract with a value of $82.3 million to provide next-generation IT services to Air Force Civil Engineering. The task order is under the General Services Administration‘s Alliant 2 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. It has a 1-year base period with four option years and a 6-month extension of service option.
Perspecta Awarded $71M Deal to Help Air Force with Enterprise Logging System
Services provider Perspecta, Inc. has won $71 million in new work with the U.S. Air Force supporting its mission to increase cyber situational awareness by implementing an enterprisewide logging system. The single-award contract is called the Enterprise Logging Phase 2, and it was awarded under the Air Force’s Network-Centric Solutions-2 NetOps. It has a 1-year
Enlighten IT Consulting Teams Up on Air Force Contract for Cyber Analytics
MacAulay-Brown, Inc. subsidiary Enlighten IT Consulting has partnered with Business Enabled Acquisition & Technology on a U.S. Air Force contract aimed at bolstering cyber operations for the defense of critical networks. Enlighten will use its proprietary Rapid Analytic Deployment and Management Framework, or RADMF, to deploy a big data architecture in the commercial cloud in order to ingest critical cyber data
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