Elbit Systems Of America Subsidiary Awarded Contract For The Work
M7 Aerospace LLC, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems of America, has been awarded an initial $5 million order on a sub-contract from Support Systems Associates to provide an avionics refresh for the U.S. Air National Guard's premier fixed-wing aircraft used for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance operations – the RC-26B. If all options are ordered, the total sub-contract would be valued at $22 million. M7 Aerospace will complete the work by 2021 out of its San Antonio, Texas facility.
Dr. Ross Cummings Appointed Director Of The Program
Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound in 1947, and the Air Force has never looked back. The Air Force partnered with NASA to develop and test the X-15, a hypersonic, rocket-powered aircraft in the late 1950s and most of the 1960s. A great deal of human capital and money was invested in making the leap from supersonic to hypersonic -- the potential to travel at five times the speed of sound or more than 3,000 mph.
ConfigOS Software Expands Coverage For Automating Weapon System STIG Compliance
SteelCloud has received a license award for its ConfigOS software to be used to automate STIG compliance and remediation for another USAF aircraft simulator program. The company's patented STIG remediation and compliance software was licensed to harden the Microsoft Windows application stacks unique to this major simulator program and to accelerate RMF accreditation and ATO deliverables.
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