Fuerza Aérea de EE.UU. (USAF)

[champi]

Prisas para mejorar los sistemas de seguridad integrada del mando europeo (11/4/2022): https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/ ... e/2996216/

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AIR FORCE

CACI INC.–FEDERAL, Chantilly, Virginia (FA564122D0001); and M.C. Dean Inc., Tysons, Virginia (FA564122D0002), have been awarded a $91,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract for U.S. European Command integrated base defense security systems. This contract provides for streamlined delivery of electronic security and emergency management deliverable products in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility. The product solutions will be provided to various locations throughout the U.S. European Command area of responsibility with delivery locations concentrated in Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Belgium, and Kosovo. The initial three-year ordering period for the contract ends April 6, 2025, with four optional one-year ordering periods ending April 6, 2029, and potential performance through April 6, 2030. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition with three offers received. Fiscal 2022 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $5,000 total will be obligated to the guaranteed minimum delivery orders, which will be issued concurrently with the basic contracts. Air Force Installation Contracting Command, 764th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, is the contracting activity. (Awarded April 7, 2022)
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[champi]

Quieren construir una planta fotovoltaica en Morón: https://sam.gov/opp/d2bbe71c0f054e33984 ... d6901/view

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The United States Air Force is issuing solicitation FA5575-22-R-0002 to request proposals for a Firm-Fixed Price contract to design and construct a Photovoltaic (PV) Farm of 900 kWp in Morón AB, as an energy-savings based project.

The magnitude of this project is between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000 U.S. Dollars. This is furnished for the convenience of prospective contractors. The actual extent of work requirements will be governed by the specifications and drawings.

A pre-proposal conference/site visit will be held 22 February 2022, 10:00 hours local time, in the Contracting Conference room, Building 106 Moron AB, Spain. Please contact the POC's listed in Section L to coordinate attendance of the site visit.
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De este pdf adjunto: https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opport ... ad?&token=

[champi]

Contrato relacionado con el entrenamiento para tripulaciones de los RC/OC/WC-135 y E-4B (18/4/2022): https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/ ... e/3002680/

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MilSup LLC, North Las Vegas, Nevada, has been awarded a $10,454,594 firm-fixed-price modification (P00007) to previously awarded contract FA4890-21-C-0001 for the RC/OC/WC-135 and E-4B Aircrew Training and Courseware Development Contract. This modification exercises Option Year One. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $52,574,135. Fiscal 2022 operations and maintenance funds will be incrementally obligated in the amount of $6,730,694. Work will be performed at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and is expected to be completed by April 30, 2023. Air Combat Command Acquisition Management & Integration Center, Langley AFB, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
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[champi]

Contrato para pallets 463L (19/4/2022): https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/ ... e/3004057/

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AIR FORCE

AAR Manufacturing Inc., Cadillac, Michigan, has been awarded an $8,172,220 delivery order (FA8534-22-F-0037) against previously awarded contract FA8534-20-D-0003 for the production of the 463L cargo pallets. Work will be performed in Cadillac, Michigan, and is expected to be completed by July 15, 2022. This award is the result of a sole source acquisition. Fiscal 2021 other (Air Force) funds in the full amount are being obligated at time of award. The total cumulative face value of the contract is $78,994,791. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity.
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[champi]

Están probando el nuevo sistema generador de oxígeno que equipará el T-7: https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display ... -red-hawk/

Si todo va bien, lo montarán en cinco unidades para probarlo en vuelo antes de finales de año.

[Truquichan]

Están probando el nuevo sistema generador de oxígeno que equipará el T-7: https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display ... -red-hawk/

Si todo va bien, lo montarán en cinco unidades para probarlo en vuelo antes de finales de año.

Espero que salga mejor que los de los f22 y f35 que han dado de que hablar.

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Y no descansan los vuelos de reconocimiento/inteligencia electrónica de la USAF en las fronteras ucranianas/biellorrusas. Concretamente están ahora los EC135 JAKE 11 en Polonia vigilando Bielorrusia y el HOMER 71 sobre Rumanía vigilando Ucrania

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Parece que hay jarana en la zona, porque en Rumanía, se suma AS17 de la USN, un EP3E ACES II, siguiendo en vuelo también los 2 RC135 antes mencionados

[Orel]

Pagano, los vuelos no han parado desde el inicio de la invasión
Aquí un gran ejemplo que nos puso hace unas semanas:

Actividad ISR de la Otan y amigos de la segunda mitad de marzo:

[Pathfinder]

The Air Force is looking to reduce the size of its F-15EX buy to the point that it is likely to be more trouble than it’s worth.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/t ... in-trouble


the F-15EX has an airframe life of 20,000 hours compared to 6,000-8,000 hours on most fighter aircraft — for the homeland defense mission.

[Vorlon]

Parece que el E-7 tiene expédito el camino..

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display ... apability/

Published April 26, 2022
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) --
Based on market research, the Department of the Air Force has decided to replace a portion of the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System fleet with the E-7 Wedgetail, which is produced by The Boeing Company.

The Boeing E-7 is the only platform capable of meeting the requirements for the Defense Department’s tactical battle management, command and control and moving target indication capabilities within the timeframe needed to replace the aging E-3.

A contract award is planned in fiscal year 2023.

saludos

[jupiter]

El programa del Raider sigue avanzando a todo trapo.
https://www.airforcemag.com/producing-n ... ough-2027/

Producing New B-21 Bomber Will Cost $20 Billion Through 2027

The Air Force expects to spend close to $20 billion on producing the B-21 Raider through fiscal 2027, but it doesn’t say how many of the advanced bombers it will buy for that cost. Including research and development, USAF will spend more than $32 billion on the Raider through fiscal 2027, according to service budget documents.

Justifications for the Air Force’s fiscal 2023 budget request include spending estimates across the future years defense plan, or FYDP, stretching through 2027. B-21 procurement, which does not include military construction or research and development, is requested at the following amounts:
Fiscal Year B-21 Procurement Funding Request
2022 (enacted) $108 million
2023 $1.787 billion
2024 $3.551 billion
2025 $4.429 billion
2026 $4.638 billion
2027 $5.023 billion
Source: USAF budget documents

The 2022 amount is likely to be for materials and long-lead items for initial production. For the period ’23 through ’27, the planned B-21 production total request is $19.536 billion. Northrop Grumman is building the B-21.

The Air Force has opted to classify how many B-21s it plans to buy for the requested amount. However, at the outset of the program, the cost of the bomber was capped at $550 million each in base year 2010 dollars, or $729.25 million in current dollars. That figure was intended to be an average unit cost over a production run of about 100 airplanes, and early examples of a new military aircraft always cost the most, when the learning curve is highest and the most tweaks tend to be made to the design.

Meeting the price cap was deemed a “critical parameter” of the program, the Air Force said. The B-21’s predecessor, the Next-Generation Bomber, was canceled because Pentagon officials deemed its cost too high and its capability too “exquisite.”

If production costs were fixed at the current level, the Air Force could buy 2.5 B-21s in fiscal ’23; nearly five in fiscal ’24; six in fiscal ’25; and between six and seven per year after, or just over 20 for the five-year period. Those figures roughly agree with initial revelations about the B-21 contract, which calls for 21 Raiders to be built in the first five production lots. However, that would not include further cost escalation due to inflation or new capabilities demanded by changing threats.

The amounts suggest that the fiscal ’25 budget achieves something of a plateau for the bomber, with rapid growth in the near years slowing to more modest growth in the latter part of the FYDP. The Air Force has said early versions of the B-21, although designated for testing, will nonetheless be “useable assets” available for combat operations.

Research and development of the Raider doesn’t stop, though.

[Orel]

Como dicen, a ver cuántos fabrican finalmente.

Finalmente confirmado que la USAF seleciona el E-7 Wedgetail como sustituto del E-3:
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display ... apability/
https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/us ... 06.article

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Era la solución lógica

[Pathfinder]

Top Air Force leadership says some F-15 units will end up with drones or no planes at all now that only 80 F-15EXs will be bought.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u ... -15ex-cuts