MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HII (NYSE: HII) announced today that its Mission Technologies division was awarded a task order to support the U.S. Air Force’s efforts to recapitalize and sustain its fleet of presidential and executive aircraft. The contract is valued at over $30 million.
An HII team in Dayton, Ohio, will perform a broad set of tasks to enhance the reliability and supportability of aircraft and aircraft systems under the contract, which will be administered by the U.S Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Presidential and Executive Airpower Directorate. The directorate is responsible for planning and executing all life-cycle activities related to the recapitalization of Air Force One and E-4B aircraft, and sustainment of the current Air Force One, E-4B, C-12, C-32, C-37, and C-40 aircraft.
“Our customer has an important mission to increase the reliability of the special-purpose aircraft used for VIP transport,” said Grant Hagen, president of Mission Technologies’ Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space (CEWS) business unit. “We welcome and appreciate the opportunity to support the sustainment of these aircraft throughout their lifecycle.”
HII, in collaboration with the Presidential and Executive Airpower Directorate, will analyze critical aircraft systems and inform equipment improvements to sustain presidential and executive airpower.
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“The Air Force’s decision validates the customer’s confidence in the work we’ve performed in this space for the last two decades and what we’ve been able to accomplish,” said Eric Wright, vice president of CEWS operations. “We look forward to building on that relationship as the work scope changes and the mission evolves.”
HII was awarded the task order under the Department of Defense’s Information Analysis Center (IAC) Multiple Award Contract (MAC) vehicle. IAC MAC task orders are awarded by the U.S. Air Force’s 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron to develop and create new knowledge for the enhancement of the Defense Technical Information Center repository and the research and development and science and technology community.
Most of the work will be performed out of the program office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
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