Salish-Kootenai firm gets $325 million Air Force service contract: S&K Technologies helps keep F-15s flying

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Melmer, David Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 05-16-2001 Salish-Kootenai firm gets $325 million Air Force service contract: S&K Technologies helps keep F-15s flying PABLO, Mont. -- When the U.S. Air Force needs to repair a part on one of its aircraft anywhere in the world someone on the Flathead Reservation will come to the rescue. S&K Technologies Inc.

owned by the Salish and Kootenai Tribes landed an eight-year, $325 million contract to provide information technology that will track parts for owners of F-15 fighter aircraft to keep planes in good working order. "We are not a manufacturing firm. We establish a network of sources of repair and negotiate all the details with them. Then we put a computer tracking system in place so wherever the...