Pamela Drew ITT Exelis (NYSE: XLS) has won a potential $435 million subcontract to help operate and engineer an international communications network NASA uses for interplanetary robotic spacecraft missions. NASA’s Deep Space Network supports missions to explore the solar system and the universe, as well as certain Earth-orbiting missions, Exelis... 

James Moos Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) has won a potential $56 million contract to help NASA develop and implement programs intended to ensure compliance with agency policies and federal regulations. The single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contains 19 base months, three one-year options and a five-month option,... 

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a $166.8 million contract extension to continue providing mission control services and systems support services for NASA‘s manned spaceflight programs. The option extends the facilities development and operations contract through Sept. 30, 2014 and increases the total contract value to $1 billion, NASA said Thursday. Lockheed... 

Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) has won a $138 million contract option to continue working under a manufacturing support and facility operations contract with NASA. The company will work with the Marshall Space Flight Center’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where NASA builds aerospace structures, Jacobs said Tuesday. Terry Hagen, Jacobs... 

NASA is set to put out a preliminary request for a potential $14 billion information technology acquisition contract focused on cloud-based computing services, hardware, storage systems and peripherals. The draft request for proposals for the seven-year Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract will be released this week, with the final RFPRequest... 

Wyle Laboratories Inc. has won a potential $1.76 billion human health and performance contract to support NASA’s Johnson Space Center human spaceflight programs. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the company will provide the agency with biomedical, medical and health services, according to a statement from the space agency. The... 

NASA photo NASA has awarded three companies contracts potentially worth $350 million combined to provide engineering products and services to the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Each five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a minimum order quantity value of $1 million, the agency said Monday. Companies will compete for orders... 

A Jacobs Engineering Group-led team has won a potential $1.93 billion contract to provide NASA engineering, technology and science services at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The cost-plus-award-fee services contract starts May 1 and contains five base years and two two-year options, Jacobs said Tuesday. Team members for the JSC Engineering, Technology... 

Rob Strain Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has promoted Chief Operating Officer Rob Strain to succeed David Taylor as CEO, effective at the end of March. Taylor will retire from the company at that time after a 29-year career there, Ball Aerospace said Monday. Strain joined the company in March 2012 as COO after serving four years as director of... 

NASA has increased the total value of a bioastronautics support contract with Wyle‘s integrated science and engineering group to $1.2 billion, the agency said Thursday. The company won a $49 million modificationTypes: Administrative Change : A unilateral contract change that does not affect the contractual rights of the parties. Change order:...