The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Intelligent Software Solutions a $25 million contract for software development. The new contract will create between 50 and 75 new jobs in Colorado Springs, as well as new positions in other cities where ISS operates. The yearlong contract is in addition to the existing $500 million program [...] [...]
ITT Corp. has received a $17.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force’s European Command for communications support. The contract is for six years. Much of the work will be performed by ITT Systems in Colorado Springs. Under the award, ITT will provide program management, communications equipment maintenance, logistics support, computers and cellular instrument support [...] [...]
It took a while for the United States to realize it needed to be involved in a different kind of war – a war that focuses on bits and bytes instead of boots and bombs. Cyber warfare is the next big push for the nation’s war fighters, and the country is behind in developing ways [...] [...]
The Air Force Space Command says five Air Force bases in the Pacific will be the first to get access to social-networking Internet sites under new Defense Department rules. Space Command headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., said Tuesday the five bases are Anderson in Guam, Eielson and Elmendorf in Alaska, Hickam in Hawaii [...] [...]
A national company with Colorado Springs ties will have a presence in the White House Situation Room. Intelligent Software Solutions developed and an application that will allow critical infrastructure monitoring at the White House, in a project sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. The company developed [...] [...]
Academy seeking more effective way to change silicon Researchers at the Air Force Academy are working to create a more efficient, cost-effective way of making black silicon — a material that is used to absorb light in solar photovoltaic cells, cameras and night vision goggles. Black silicon is not typically found in nature; it is [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 16,2009
Tags: Air Force
WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday restored the Air Force’s authority to select the winner of a $35 billion contract for aerial refueling tankers between Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. Last summer, Gates stripped the service’s ability to award a contract in the wake of a Government Accountability Office report that found [...] [...]
by Staff Writer Published: August 28,2009
Tags: Air Force
The U.S. Air Force Academy is renewing its efforts to shape the character of cadets. The plans, which were announced today, include creating a new professor position to lead a new Character & Leadership Development center and add research and assessment to its curriculum. Superintendent Lt. Gen. Mike Gould said the intent will be to integrate [...] [...]
by Staff Writer Published: August 12,2009
Tags: Air Force
Five Air Force leaders were named as 2009 Space and Missle Pioneers during a special ceremony yesterday. Dr. Benjamin Blasingame, Col. Vernon Hastings, Dr. F. Robert Naka, Col. Bradford Parkinson and Roger Easton were selected for the honor this year. Blasingame was a pioneer in the development of the Air Force’s early [...] [...]
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