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Air Force Research Lab seeks small businesses for rapid innovation support

AFRL's Center for Rapid Innovation focuses on addressing urgent operational needs in 24 months or less.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force Research Laboratory brings $10B vehicle back from the dead

The lab's goal for the multiple-award vehicle remains the same: hire a group of companies that can help in unclassified research-and-development efforts, as well as tech transition.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force wraps up awards for $866M advisory, assistance contract

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center hires four contractors to aid its work in looking at air, space, missile and cyber issues.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force eyes OTAs, agile acquisition for next-gen air operations command and control system

Kessel Run is managing the modernization effort, which calls for a systems integrator as the prime.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force Research Lab cancels $10B vehicle

Air Force leaders will reassess the strategy for acquiring research-and-development support from industry.

  • By Ross Wilkers

As aircraft losses mount, Pentagon wants a software fix to see through the fog of war

The Defense Department is looking to update how older planes see each other and absorb data.

  • By Patrick Tucker
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Air Force seeks data migration solution for classified 3DExperience systems

This new market research effort focuses on air-gapped engineering environments.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Anduril: new factory will start making drone wingman in just ‘days’

The Ohio manufacturing facility is to open months ahead of schedule.

  • By Thomas Novelly

Air Force wants its acquisition tools in the cloud

The Air Force envisions iteration number two of its LaunchPad environment as extending beyond the current base of engineering users.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force Research Lab seeks more national approach for innovation

Lab officials give a first glimpse at how they want to expand on a pilot program for turning dual-use technology into operational capability.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force reaches deal with Northrop to expand B-21 production

The Pentagon wants to spend $4.5 billion in bomber-related reconciliation funds this year alone.

  • By Thomas Novelly

Air Force launches program for resilient intelligence platforms

The RAPID program will use traditional and other transaction authority contracts to develop cloud-based tools that can combine multiple intelligence sources with automation and cyber defense tools.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force charts new path to recompete nuclear missile support work

Instead of one big contract, the service branch will hold separate competitions for different lines of work to aid in the transition to a new ground-based system.

  • By Ross Wilkers
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Air Force Research Lab opens proposal window for $10B vehicle

This will be the lab's central mechanism for acquiring research-and-development support on behalf of the entire Air Force.

  • By Ross Wilkers

General Dynamics IT books $120M Air Force zero trust contract

The task order, awarded through the Next Generation Gateway program, will deliver cybersecurity solutions to 1 million users across 187 bases worldwide.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force consolidates some acquisition program offices into mission-focused groups

But many of the new “portfolio acquisition executives” were already leading multi-mission efforts.

  • By Thomas Novelly

Air Force gives small businesses 3 days to respond to nuclear systems contract

The contract nuclear missile engineering support has a compressed timeline from the initial sources sought notice to award.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Air Force reopens $972M Northrop contract after conflict-of-interest allegations

Protests from Science Applications International Corp. and HII prompted the service to conduct an investigation after accusations that Northrop would be evaluating its own work.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Leidos wins $455M Air Force cloud architecture job

This piece of the service branch's Cloud One Next initiative concentrates on access to cloud computing services via automated, on-demand and self-service means.

  • By Ross Wilkers

Air Force looks to refactor HR apps, avoid vendor lock-in

The service branch's personnel office needs to move applications to a new Salesforce licensing model while keeping the current systems up and running.

  • By Nick Wakeman

The Netherlands joins US Air Force’s robot wingman program

The U.S. ally also agreed to develop small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance with General Atomics.

  • By Lauren C. Williams