Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (NYSE: BLL) has appointed Rob Strain, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center director, as chief operating officer effective March 2012.. Ball Aerospace said Strain will oversee the company’s operations and will lead support functions including: engineering program execution mission assurance information technology Strain has served as director …

Ball Aerospace (NYSE: BLL) will be awarded up to $600, 000 to study the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space under a six-month contract with NASA. Ball will help develop a mission concept to test key technologies required for deep space exploration. NASA is pursuing human missions to an asteroid by 2025, …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Ball Aerospace (NYSE: BLL) a $36, 928, 217 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide work for the MOIRE Program. The program provides real-time tactical video and missile launch detection and tracking to war fighters. It utilizes diffractive membrane optics, which may facilitate low-cost geosynchronous imaging. …

Ball Aerospace’s Carol Lane spoke with GovCon Executive about her favorite vacation spot:  “Last summer, my daughter and I went to Canouan in the Grenadines, ” she said. “We were the only Americans staying at this particular resort. The temperature is generally not that different from the beaches around here, …

A team composed of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) and Ball Aerospace has received a $7.2M contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to build a Multi-Band, Multi-Mission satellite antenna prototype.

Betty Sapp, former director of the National Reconnaissance Office, has joined Ball (NYSE: BLL) as a member of the board of directors. John Hayes, chairman, president and CEO of Ball, said in a statement published Tuesday Sapp will complement Ball’s leadership team and board as the company continues efforts to …

Nate Carey, formerly assistant controller of Ball Corporation (NYSE: BLL), has been promoted to vice president and controller of the Broomfield, Colorado-based aerospace contractor. He succeeds Shawn Barker, who transitioned to a new role as the corporation’s finance transformation VP, Ball said Monday. Carey joined Ball in 2014 after he previously spent 13 years …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 22, 2016 —  Aerospace Industries Association has elected Roger Krone, Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) chairman and CEO, to its executive board of governors for 2017, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Krone will join Boeing (NYSE: BA) CEO Dennis Muilenburg and Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) CEO Thomas Kennedy, who will respectively serve as …

S&K Aerospace has won a potential 15-year, $4.2 billion contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide logistics, maintenance and technical support services for 107 foreign military sales customers under the Parts and Repair Ordering System V program. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received four proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, …

Montana-based tribally owned business S&K Aerospace has landed a $269 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to support the service branch’s Parts and Repair Ordering System IV. The contract will work to address continuity of service requirements until the Air Force issues a follow-on source selection, the Defense Department said Monday. …