Tag Archive for: U.S. Air Force

USAF veteran serves veteran-owned businesses through cost reduction

Following his service in the U.S. Airforce (USAF), Shawn Cooper, CEO of Cooper Financial Group (CFG), turned his attention to pursuing an advanced education, eventually beginning a new career in cost reduction for other veteran-owned businesses. Having ended his career as a heavy equipment operator for the USAF in 2005, Cooper set his focus on […]

UAH begins new Air Force ROTC program for freshmen, sophomores with fall 2024 semester

The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will begin a new Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (AFROTC) program with the fall 2024 semester. The program will be available to freshmen and sophomores. Air Force ROTC allows scholarship and non-scholarship cadets to live as regular college students while pursuing their degrees. Once they graduate, they […]

Huntsville’s Intrepid wins $534M contract to support the Army’s Missile and Space Programs

The U.S. Army has awarded Intrepid LLC a 5 ½-year Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) Support Services contract. The contract has a potential total value of $534 million. The contract objective and requirements include programmatic and technical support in various areas, including program operations, systems engineering, systems test, systems software engineering, and systems logistics. […]

Huntsville business wins $1B military contract

Solytics, a joint venture between Intrepid and Cintel, has been named an awardee of the $1B Test & Evaluation Technologies for Ranges, Armaments & Spectrum (TETRAS) II IDIQ for the Air Force’s 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base (AFB), Fla. TETRAS II will support the continuous mission of the test community for the development […]

City of Huntsville, State of Alabama reacts to Space Command decision

As of yesterday, President Joe Biden overturned a long-time battle to move the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) headquarters from Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. The decision curtails the long political battle that began under the administration of former President Donald Trump. In a recent press statement, Biden mentioned that the decision leaned heavily on the […]

Green joins Bank Independent’s downtown location

Bank Independent is pleased to announce that Crystal Green has joined our team as a VP Sales Officer at the Downtown Huntsville Sales Office located at 225 Holmes Avenue NE. Green has over 24 years in the banking industry with most of that time coming on the retail side. She has spent the last six years […]

Parsons Hosting U.S. Air Force to Commemorate First Delivery of RADBO System

On June 1st, Parsons Corporation will host an event to commemorate the delivery of the first of 13 Recovery of Airbase Denied by Ordnance (RADBO), plus an additional three ZEUS laser neutralization systems, to the U.S. Air Force (USAF). Delivering direct support capability to the Air Force Resilient Basing Operational Imperative, RADBO consists of three main […]

U. S. Space Force Orbital Prime Awards $1.7 Million Contract to Orbital Assembly in Direct to Phase II SBIR Award

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Orbital Assembly has been awarded a $1.7 million contract from the United States Space Force to develop rapidly deployable On Orbit structural technologies to support many types of electronic equipment. The United States Space Force is a separate and distinct branch of the armed services, organized under the Department of the Air […]

Boeing Awarded $1.6B Contract for Minuteman Missile

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $1.6 billion contract to provide guidance subsystem support for the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which is supported at the Boeing Huntsville site. Boeing will maintain the around-the-clock readiness and accuracy of Minuteman ICBM guidance systems — which have logged more than 40 million hours of continuous operation […]

Department of Defense Contract Review: January 09 – 20

This series from the Huntsville Business Journal covers Department of Defense (DoD) contracts awarded to Huntsville-Madison County and Alabama businesses. Every two weeks, the Huntsville Business Journal provides you with an update to the various military contracts that local and state businesses are awarded. This entry covers contracts listed on the Department of Defense daily postings from Monday, January […]