Air Force awards 24 places on $920M aircraft equipment modernization contract
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Ross Wilkers
The Next Generation Aerospace Ground Equipment contract's scope covers design, development, integration and testing work.
The Air Force has awarded 24 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $920 million contract for broad modernization services to help the service branch develop and field aircraft ground equipment.
Air Force officials set up the Next Generation Aerospace Ground Equipment contract to cover design, development, integration and testing work on various aircraft and other platforms. The Air Force received 66 proposals for the contract, the Pentagon said in its Monday awards digest.
Awardees are as follows:
- Aero Specialties
- ATAP
- ATEC
- Aviation Ground Equipment
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- Chase Defense
- Coherent Technical
- CVI
- Defense Engineering Services
- DEVAL
- ES3
- GS Engineering
- HDT
- Intuitive
- Knight Aerospace
- Lockheed Martin
- MCT Industries
- Newton Corp.
- Oshkosh
- P2 Mission Solutions
- PCI Aviation
- Suntest Systems
- TLD
- Torch Technologies
Solicitation documents from December describe the contract as supporting the full lifecycle of air vehicle launch, recovery, and operations and maintenance activities around the world.
Fighter jets, bombers, tankers, airlift platforms and unmanned systems are examples of platforms within the scope of the contract.
Work will take place over an initial two-year base term followed by four option periods of two years each.