
A bid protest by a Collins Aerospace and Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) team is looming for a nearly $3.5 billion Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) U.S. Navy award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Wednesday. In April, the Air Force awarded SNC an up to $13 billion contract for the service’s planned survivable airborne operations center to replace the Boeing E-4B “Nightwatch” fleet, based on the 747 passenger plane and used as a mobile national command authority in crisis situations, such…