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Air Force to Begin Open Skies Sensor Suite Sustainment in 2020

Air Force to Begin Open Skies Sensor Suite Sustainment in 2020
An OC-135B Observation Aircraft from the 45th Reconnaissance Squadron, at Offutt AFB, Neb., sits on the flight line Jan. 16 at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The crew landed at Wright-Patterson to offload the 10,000 ft. of film taken of Haiti to be developed and used to document the devastation caused after a 7.0 earthquake occurred Jan. 12.

The Air Force plans to work with Northrop Grumman [NOC] to perform sensor suite sustainment on the service’s two OC-135B Open Skies reconnaissance aircraft beginning in 2020, according to an April 10 presolicitation. The service intends to release the solicitation April 25 and award a contract by Jan. 1, 2020, according to the presolicitation on FedBizOpps. The contract would be a firm fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed fee, and cost reimbursement, non-commercial contract and will “solicit for the procurement of maintenance and support…

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