A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket early Wednesday in the start of the agency’s program to land humans again on the lunar surface. The uncrewed Orion separated from the SLS upper stage at a speed of 22,600 mph two hours after liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in...
The board of directors at Battelle has appointed Kirkland “Kirk” Donald, a 37-year U.S. Navy veteran, to succeed John Welch as chairman. Welch, who has held the chairman role since 2012, will retire from the nonprofit applied science and technology development company after 21 years of service, Battelle said Tuesday. Donald has served as...
VTG has acquired Next Rev Technologies for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its multicloud and software development capabilities and client base with the addition of new Intelligence Community customers. VTG said Tuesday it expects to broaden its digital transformation and technical capabilities with the addition of Next Rev’s exper...
SpaceX has received a potential $1.15 billion contract modification from NASA to continue development work on its Starship human landing system and provide a second manned demonstration landing on the moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. NASA said Tuesday the Option B modification was awarded under the Next Space Technologies for Explorat...
Ball Aerospace will build a second satellite for the U.S. Space Force‘s Weather System Follow-on – Microwave program under a five-year, $78.3 million contract modification. The company is expected to complete the development and fabrication of the additional WSF-M space vehicle by Nov. 15, 2027, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. USSF...
Top seasoned executives in the government contracting industry including NetImpact Strategies CEO Venkatapathi “PV” Puvvada, KBR Government Solutions President Byron Bright, CACI International President and CEO John Mengucci are scheduled to share insights at the 2022 Government & Defense Conference that will be hosted by Baird on No...
BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) reported $40.7 million in revenue during the third quarter of fiscal 2022 and saw its Q3 analytics revenue rise 8 percent driven by the award of a U.S. Army contract for the implementation of the Global Force Information Management system. The Columbia, Maryland-based technology company said Wednesday it ended the quarter wit...
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of the Department of Defense, met with members of the Defense Business Board and informed them about the initiatives to strengthen the defense industrial base’s resiliency, according to a DOD meeting readout released Thursday. During DBB’s first quarterly meeting for fiscal year 2023, the two-time Wash100...
AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) will provide operations and maintenance support to the U.S. Army’s Puma long endurance and RQ-20B all environment unmanned aircraft systems under an $86.4 million contract. The Arlington, Virginia-based UAS builder is scheduled to complete work under the firm-fixed-price contract by the end of September next ...
HII’s (NYSE: HII) mission technologies division will conduct technical research and analysis for the Air Force Research Laboratory under a $70 million task order. The award includes IT services such as data analytics, modeling and simulation and system engineering to support AFRL’s information technology modernization efforts involving artif...
