NASA has chosen Boeing (NYSE: BA) to manufacture up to 10 core stages and eight upper stages to power the  Space Launch System on the agency's third to 12th deep-exploration missions under the Artemis program.

Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer at SpaceX and a 2019 Wash100 award winner, said the company sees the U.S. Army as a potential client for its Starship space vehicle and Starlink satellite constellation, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.

Dan Coats, former director of national intelligence and a 2019 Wash100 winner, has rejoined King & Spalding as senior policy adviser within the law firm’s national security team in Washington, D.C.

Mike Madsen, former vice president of integrated supply chain operations at Honeywell's (NYSE: HON) aerospace business, has been promoted to president and CEO of the unit. He succeeds Tim Mahoney, a 2016 Wash100 Award recipient.

Stratolaunch Systems, a space transportation venture established by the late Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) co-founder Paul Allen, now operates under an undisclosed entity after transitioning ownership from Allen’s Seattle-based company Vulcan.

NASA is looking for potential vendors that could support the engineering technology directorate at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland as part of the follow-on Mechanical Integrated Services and Technologies contract.

SEAKR Engineering has received a contract to develop a processing system for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Blackjack Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Demonstration program.

Aerojet Rocketdyne has agreed to design and produce a rocket engine assembly for NASA through additive manufacturing approaches as part of a Space Act Agreement with the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center.

SparkCognition, which aims to build artificial intelligence technology platforms, has raised $100M through a Series C funding round led by March Capital Partners.

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential 10-year, $300M contract to develop and test new space platforms and flight software for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.