Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center plans to issue the final request for proposals for the next generation Global Positioning System satellite on April 19. Boeing and Lockheed Martin teams have been vying for GPS Block III. By year’s end, SMC expects to select a single contractor team to proceed with development.
The Air Force awarded a $13.08 billion contract to the Sierra Nevada Corporation on April 26 for its Survivable Airborne Operations Center aircraft, the successor to the service’s E-4B “Doomsday” plane. Like the E-4B, officially called the National Airborne Operations Center, the SAOC will be meant to withstand a nuclear attack and keep…