Lockheed Martin won a $2 billion contract from the Air Force to provide operational and network management for the Transformational Satellite Communications program. The TSAT Mission Operations System, or TMOS, contract covers integration of network architecture and design. Lockheed is to complete the work by September 2015.
The Pentagon’s new counter-drone task force will play a direct role in arming Airmen with new weapons to defend Air Force agile combat employment, or ACE, air bases in austere locations against enemy drone attacks, the director of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 said Oct. 14.
