The U.S. Air Force plans to buy up to six light-attack aircraft from Textron (NYSE: TXT) and a Sierra Nevada Corp.-Embraer team for use in training and experimental activities as part of the National Defense Strategy.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has tapped United Launch Alliance to provide launch services for its Dream Chaser spacecraft, which will perform six cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station for NASA.

Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a potential $317M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide logistics support for the precision strike package of the U.S. Air Force’s AC-130W and AC-130J gunship platforms. SNC will perform contract work through Sept. 30, 2026, at Cannon AF Base in New Mexico and Hurlburt Field in Florida, …

Northrop Grumman’s (NYSE: NOC) innovation systems sector, Sierra Nevada and Maxar Technologies’ (NYSE: MAXR) SSL have each won a potential five-year, $750M contract to develop small and medium satellites, payloads, spacecraft subsystems, buses, software and ground platforms for NASA. NASA announced the awardees under the Small Spacecraft Prototyping Engineering Development and …

Mark Sirangelo, executive vice president for Sierra Nevada Corp.’s space business, stepped down from his role at the company on June 30 citing personal reasons, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Fatih Ozmen, SNC co-owner and CEO, will lead Sierra Nevada Space Systems on an acting basis until the company finds a replacement …

Jennifer Jensen, formerly vice president of business development for communications, navigation and surveillance systems at Sierra Nevada, has joined Charles Stark Draper Laboratory as VP of national security and space. Kaigham Gabriel, president and CEO of Draper, said in a statement published Thursday Jensen will pursue defense, space and national …

Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a potential five-year, $205 million contract to provide support services for electronic warfare technology the U.S. Special Operations Command uses to disrupt radio-controlled improvised explosive devices. The Defense Department said Monday SNC will support the command’s Dismounted Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare systems and perform contract work …

NASA has awarded Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), Sierra Nevada and SpaceX a second round of potential multi-billion dollar contracts to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station through 2024 in support of efforts to end U.S. reliance on Russia for access to space by 2017, agency officials said …

Sierra Nevada has won a potential four-year, $172.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to produce six A-29 aircraft for the government of Lebanon through a foreign military sales agreement. The firm-fixed-price contract also covers support equipment, spares, interim contractor assistance, alternate mission tools and engineering support services for the planes, …

Sierra Nevada has won a two-year, $9.5 million contract to design computer software and hardware systems for U.S. intelligence agencies to access, store and exchange information. The Defense Department said Tuesday the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Sierra Nevada through a competitive process and that …