Technology company SI International has been awarded an $11-million Air Force Space Command contract for work at Peterson Air Force Base.
SI will provide engineering, management and technical assistance for developing, testing and sustaining next-generation space situational awareness and command and control capabilities – including air, space and missile elements.
SI has 4,500 […]
Maytag Aircraft Corp. of Colorado Springs has won a $14.7 million contract for operation and maintenance services of bulk fuel facilities to serve Air Force installations in New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
This is the company’s third contract award during 2008.
Doug Harris, director of business operations, said Maytag […]
Michael B. Donley has been named acting secretary of the Air Force, succeeding ousted secretary Michael Wynne, who held the position since November 2005.
Donley was previously the administration and management director for the Secretary of Defense, a position sometimes referred to as mayor of the Pentagon.
Donley has more than 26 years of […]
Questions about the mishandling of nuclear weapons have prompted the resignation of the Air Force’s top civilian official and its highest ranking general.
Secretary Michael W. Wynne and chief of staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley both released resignation notices today after Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced an official inquiry about […]
Nearly 500 free reserved-seat tickets for the Air Force Academy’s 2008 graduation ceremony will be available through the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce.
President George W. Bush is scheduled to be this year’s commencement speaker. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. May 28 at Falcon Stadium.
Free tickets can […]
Fire officials say the Ordway wildfire is about 95 percent contained and the fire on Fort Carson Army Base is about 10 percent contained.
Aircraft are still restricted from flying within five miles of the fire, and Highway 115 remains closed at mile 39, officials said.
Two Colorado Springs Fire Department chiefs and five trucks […]
Peterson Air Force Base will begin construction on a $321 million sustainable energy housing project Thursday.
Nearly 600 homes will be built and 53 renovated to house Peterson personnel and their families.
New homes will be built with tankless water heaters and will include ENERGY STAR appliances, home office spaces with technology niches, […]
The El Paso County Board of Commissioners learned that additional federal money is now available for the Rancho Colorado buffer zone project, adjacent to the eastern border of Fort Carson.
In 2005, Fort Carson started relying on the federal program designed to slow encroachment of development along its southeastern boundary.
The […]
Colorado Technical University Online has awarded full scholarships to 25 wounded service members at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
CTU online worked with the Helping Our Heroes Foundation to develop this one-time scholarship program. Recipients were chosen by a 10-person selection board, which included educators and military officers.
Each scholarship includes a […]
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The Boeing Co. wants the Air Force to immediately explain why it awarded a $35 billion contract to rival European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. and its partner, Northrop Grumman Corp.
The contract was for supplying air-to-air refueling tankers to the Air Force, which Boeing has been doing for […]
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