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General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract

General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting eventA General Atomics subsidiary has received a $27.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to address diminishing manufacturing sources for the primary data link of MQ-9 Gen 4 Predator remotely piloted aircraft.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will perform work under the sole-source contract in Poway, California through Nov. 29, 2019, the Defense Department said Wednesday.

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson AF Base in Ohio is the contracting activity.

Predator B, also called MQ-9 Reaper, is designed to fly up to 50,000 feet and carry payloads up to 3,850 pounds.

GA-ASI incorporated a triple redundant avionics system architecture and a fault-tolerant flight control system into the multimission unmanned aircraft.

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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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