Boeing has secured a massive $7.5 billion contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to produce kits that will transform unguided bombs into state-of-the-art smart weapons, known as Joint Direct ...
represents the largest single contract ever awarded to SNC. The SAOC will eventually supplant the Air Force’s E-4B Nightwatch, or National Airborne Operations Center aircraft, which have been in ...
SNC’s massive undertaking involves converting Boeing 747 jumbo jets into state-of-the-art aircraft capable of withstanding nuclear war, aptly nicknamed “Doomsday planes.” With a $13 billion contract ...
To get these 747s ready to direct forces during a nuclear war, Sierra Nevada will add antennas and computers — and ...
Earlier this month, Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) was awarded a $13 billion contract to modernize ... to purchase 8 ...
Given the sensitivity of this asset, the Air Force rarely shows the interior of the E-4B. However, Offutt Air Force Base’s ...
"[W]hat we have done is assured the Air Force that everything we produce under the contract becomes their data," said Brady ...