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USAF May Award Mission Planning Support Contract Worth Up to $600 Million

USAF May Award Mission Planning Support Contract Worth Up to $600 Million
B-52H Stratofortress navigator and radar-navigators workstation inside the 76th Software Maintenance Group's test lab on May 29, 2018 at Tinker AFB, Okla. Software upgrades known as B-52H Stratofortress Mission Planning Environment were produced by the 557th Software Maintenance Squadron at Tinker. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force may award a contract worth up to $600 million for aircraft mission planning support by early next year. The service is likely to issue a Request for Proposals for the Mission Planning Support Contract IV (MPSC IV) in the next two weeks. In August 2017, Florida-based Summit Technologies, Inc. won a five-year contract worth up to $250 million for MPSC III to back Hill AFB, Utah's Mission Planning Enterprise by providing global mission planning support to…

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