House and Senate approve $10M in FY19 #NDAA for #JAGM-F Missiles for Navy and Marine Corps Fighter Aircraft

The FY19 #NDAA conference report was released this week and the House and Senate Defense Authorization committees (#HASC and #SASC)added $5M in the USMC #JAGM line, and an additional $5M in the Navy's #F/A-18 Squadrons line for JAGM-F Fixed Wing Studies and Analysis. This missile will provide the Marine Corps and Navy a great capability for their F/A-18 C/D/E/F and EA-18G, and in the AV-8B and F-35B/C. #JAGM-F is a multi-mode, eject-launched missile capable of quickly defeating a variety of threats on the ground.

CoAspire Supporting Alabama Activities

CoAspire dropped in on Senator Shelby's Field Office in Huntsville, Alabama

CoAspire attended several meetings in Huntsville, Alabama this week with Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps customers, supporting Aerospace and Defense work in Alabama. 

@CoAspire is now an IBM Software Reseller Partner

CoAspire is proud to be accepted into IBM's software re-seller program.

#CoAspire sells Corel WinZip Software License renewals to the Department of Commerce

Engraving in DoC Headquarters, 1401 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC

CoAspire Attends @PTC Inc's Federal Aerospace and Defense Team Briefing in Vienna, Virginia

PTC's head of Federal Aerospace and Defense Major General Brent Baker, USAF (ret.) addresses the industry and government customers at the informal PTC event on July 11th in Vienna, Virginia

PTC Inc, a US-based, NASDAQ-traded global software company held an informative overview of how PTC software is helping both government and industries in the federal aerospace and defense markets. Briefers included technical experts from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and PTC executives. 

CoAspire sells Palo Alto Networks Transceivers as a Prime to a US Federal Agency

CoAspire Becomes a Certified Reseller of @McAfee Cyber Software Solutions

#JAGM-F Receives $9.8M for the Navy and $9.8M for the Marine Corps in FY19 Senate Approps Mark

JAGM Missile Manufactured by @LockheedMartin

On June 29th the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations publicly released its markup of the FY19 Defense Bill. The Committee added $9.8M for the US Navy for the new JAGM-F Missile, and $9.8M for the US Marine Corps in DoN RDT&E funding. This $19.6M in additional funding, if approved through the appropriations process, will allow the DoN to conduct studies and analysis and develop the new JAGM-F missile. The Air Force had already requested in their FY19 President Budget Request $31.596M for a new start for JAGM-F for their fighter aircraft.  The House also authorized similar additions for the Department of the Navy ($5M for the Navy and $5M for the Marine Corps) and authored report language, showing bi-partisan support in both chambers of Congress for this dual mode missile for fighter aircraft and the need for DoN funding. Here are links to the Senate's Mark for JAGM-F:

RDN Line 169, JAGM

+$9.8M “Program increase: Marine Corps joint air–to–ground missile for fixed wing aircraft”

https://www.congress.gov/115/crpt/srpt290/CRPT-115srpt290.pdf#page=170

RDN Line 219, F/A-18 Squadrons

+$9.8M “Program increase: Navy joint air–to–ground missile for fixed wing aircraft”

https://www.congress.gov/115/crpt/srpt290/CRPT-115srpt290.pdf#page=171

@PTC is coming to DC on July 11th for an Aerospace and Defense Software Demo Road Show

@PTC is a major US software manufacturer growing in the A&D and federal space. They will be demonstrating on Wednesday July 11th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm in Vienna Virginia their newest software solutions for the Aerospace and Defense Sector. Solutions include #IOT #PLM #AR #AM #CAD and more. Details and sign up at this link.

CoAspire has submitted its #SeaPort-Next Generation Contract Proposal

Photo US Navy

CoAspire has submitted its SeaPort-Next Generation Proposal and is excited to hopefully win a prime contract. CoAspire's teammates on this proposal (subcontractors) are Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, PTC Inc, Ventus Executive Solutions, LLC and Socius Solutions, Inc.

CoAspire is a prime on the NAVSEA SeaPort-E schedule, but NAVSEA is ending the SeaPort-E schedule and creating the SeaPort-NxG schedule. There will be similarities between the schedules but some major changes will also occur. Where SeaPort-E is broken down into seven zones based on regions across the United States, SeaPort-NxG will no longer separate contract holders into zones; all MAC holders will have the opportunity to submit proposals for any zone.

Another major change in SeaPort-NxG will be in regards to the functional areas. SeaPort-E contains 22 distinct functional areas; SeaPort-NxG is expected to have two broad functional areas – Engineering Support Services and Program Management Support Services. There will then be 29 subcategories between the two large functional areas.

Lastly, where SeaPort-E only required a contractor to have prior Department of Defense experience, SeaPort-NxG is expected to require more narrowly tailored experience specific to the Department of the Navy, which must be verifiable through the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System or government endorsement.  CoAspire has the verifiable support to the Navy as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin.