Air Force to Expand 'Pitch Days' Concept.

• Author: Tadjdeh, Yasmin
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The Air Force--coming off its first "pitch day" in New York City--plans to expand the use of the new concept to attract nontraditional companies to work with the service, a top official said March 15.

Air Force officials recently engaged with 51 companies that could help meet their needs, said Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics. The service had whittled those companies down from an original pool of 417 businesses. The Air Force planned to invest up to $40 million into the effort to get companies on contract quickly.

The focus of the event was products that could further national security in air, space and cyberspace with an emphasis on battlefield air operations technologies, digital technologies and command, control, communications, intelligence and network capabilities, according to the Air...