The Air Force awarded Boeing a $326 million contract for 15,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition tailkits, according to a March 31 release. Work on the Lot 20 tailkits will be done at Boeing’s St. Louis, Mo., facility and is expected to be finished by March 29, 2018. The order also includes technical services task management, non-warranty support induction and evaluation, and system field support. The Air Force is working to rebuild its munitions stockpile to offset heavy use of preferred munitions, such as JDAMs and Hellfire missiles, against ISIS leaders and facilities in Iraq and Syria. The service’s Fiscal 2017 budget looks to fund 30,600 JDAMs and more than 1,500 Hellfire missiles, the preferred weapon on remotely piloted aircraft. (See also: Munitions Dominate Procurement).
SAIC on CJADC2 – Live at ASC24
Sept. 17, 2024
Joshua Conine, Director of Space C2 Growth and Jay Meil, Director of AI and Data Strategies at SAIC talk about Combined Joint All Domain Command & Control at the Air and Space Forces 2024 Air, Space, and Cyber Conference at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.