NASA has awarded $146 million in contracts to five companies to develop lunar lander design concepts, perform risk reduction activities and offer feedback to inform requirements for a future solicitation on industry capabilities that could help facilitate regular manned missions to the moon under the space agency’s Artemis program. Blue Origin, Le...
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking commercially made lightweight technologies that could provide nuclear power and propulsion for small to medium military spacecraft sensing and communication systems. DIU said the Department of Defense will need more electrical power for smaller spacecraft as future missions will expand on new capabilities such ...
Government contractors came from private companies that manufacture goods and services for government establishments. This group of people is like government organizations that come in different shapes and sizes. A group of government contracting companies is hired by the government when their contracts win through bidding. U.S Government contracts ...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business will help the U.S. Air Force maintain electro-optical/infrared sensors of the U-2 Dragon Lady reconnaissance planes under a potential $493 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Collins Aerospace said Wednesday it received a $66.2 million task order that will cov...
The U.S. Air Force has named 55 awardees on a potential 11-year, $46 billion contract to perform work related to model-based systems engineering, weapons and enterprise analytics, digital engineering, Agile processes and open systems architecture. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida received 58 offers for th...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, estimates 4 percent to 7 percent growth in overall second quarter sales among defense primes. His analysis of contractor Q2 results covered Boeing (NYSE: BA), BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), L3Harris Technologies (NY...
JoAnne Dukeshire, a more than two-decade government contracting veteran, has joined ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) to serve as vice president of contracts, the company announced in a LinkedIn post. The executive brings experience in overseeing contracts and subcontracts professionals and advising government contractors across state and local, ...
Deborah Dunie, former executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined the board of directors of Perry, Georgia-based Sigma Defense Systems. Sigma Defense CEO John Wilcox said in a statement published Monday Dunie brings to the company over 30 years of experience serving in the Department of Defens...
Richard Koucheravy, formerly an executive at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has joined UltiSat to serve as vice president and lead business development activities, drive revenue growth and support presence expansion in emerging markets. The satellite communications company said Thursday Koucheravy most recently served as the senior director of bu...
Mark Baird, a retired Air Force brigadier general, has been named president of Virgin Orbit’s VOX Space subsidiary. He brings to the role over three decades of aerospace experience as VOX Space works to further advance the delivery of launch services in support of customers in the national security community, the company said Tuesday. “Mark...
