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Air Force vision stresses need for innovation, improved training
Air Force officials vowed this month to focus tightly on force structure, modernization and acquisition of advanced technologies to avoid becoming a hollow force in the wake of two decades of war and a difficult budget environment.
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Lockheed to support ground station for GPS worldwide system
Lockheed Martin has won a new contract from the Air Force Space Command Space and Missile Center to sustain the ground control segment for the Global Positioning System satellite constellation.
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Air Force seeks tech support for information operations
The Air Force is seeking a contractor to sustain and refine its information operations and SharePoint collaborative environments.
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7 vie for $1.4B worth of DISA network services tasks
The Defense Department has awarded a $1.4 billion contract to seven companies to compete for task orders in support of the Defense Information System Network.
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Lockheed gets 10-year, $1.9B contract for 2 AEHF satellites
Lockheed Martin received a 10-year, $1.9 billion contract modification from the Air Force for its continuing work on the Advanced Extremely High Vehicle (AEHF) program.
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Harris to continue working on Air Force satellite network
The Air Force has awarded a fifth option year valued at $66 million on its Network and Space Operations and Maintenance contract to Harris.
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Rockwell Collins will complete TTNT waveform development under AFRL contract
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded Rockwell Collins an $18 million contract to complete the development and qualification of the Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) waveform.
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Intelligent Software Solutions wins $593M AF software deal
Intelligent Software Solutions has won an Air Force software contract potentially worth up to $593 million over five years.
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CyberCity gives hackers skills needed to prevail in cyber warfare
Air Force cyber warriors are getting ready to learn how to do battle in cyberspace against hostile actors who would disrupt critical infrastructure by working in a virtual city that has all of the trappings of modern-day, computer-based life.
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Lockheed, Raytheon face off in Space Fence competition
Two titans of the defense industry have submitted final contract proposals for the Air Force's ambitious Space Fence program that seeks to field a next-generation, ground-based radar system that will improve the way the service identifies and tracks objects orbiting Earth.
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Air Force taps Hughes for waveform development
Hughes Network Systems has won a contract from the Air Force Military Satellite Communications System Directorate to support protected, tactical satellite communications.
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Air Force centralizes cyber control under new reorganization plan
Service reorganizes business operations to become more cost-effective and benefit from commercially available technologies.
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Second AEHF satellite fully operational after on-orbit testing
Lockheed Martin and the Air Force have transferred operational control of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite to the 14th Air Force at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., following successful on orbit testing of the spacecraft.
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Air Force abandons costly ERP project
After spending $1 billion on a major enterprise resource planning software project, the Air Force has decided its better off in the long run scrapping the project on the grounds that completing the project would result in no appreciable gain.
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Tight budgets drive training into the networked virtual world
Technological advances have made the task of preparing troops for combat more efficient and less expensive.
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Air Force explores options for future protected satcom
The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded as many as 17 contracts worth a total of $84.3 million to companies to help it explore options for a future generation of protected military satellite communications architecture.
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Air Force adds $1.45B to NETCENTS as delays in follow-on contract continue
The Air Force Electronics Systems Center has increased the value of the existing NETCENTS contract by $1.45 billion to $10.45 billion and has extended it through September 2013 while it works to resolve protests on the follow-on contract.
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Cubic opens office at Wright-Patterson
Cubic Defense Applications has opened a new office in Beavercreek, Ohio, that will enable it to support and pursue new training and tactical communications business at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
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Air Force buying more armed Reapers
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems was awarded a $125.5 million contract for 10 MQ-9 modified Block 1 aircraft by the Air Force.
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