The Air Force plans to award General Atomics a sole-source contract worth up to $20 million this month to update the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper programs with six urgent mission-readiness initiatives, Inside the Air Force has learned. A Jan. 24 Federal Business Opportunities announcement notes a basic ordering agreement for the fiscal year 2017 mission-readiness capability effort for MQ-1 and MQ-9 aircraft, which sets general requirements for those programs. "We have about six individual MRC actions in process...
