NASA has awarded eight U.S. firms a total of $4M to investigate concepts that will aid existing and future space transmission systems. The goal of their five-month research period is to gain data that will assist near-Earth missions that are scheduled to begin in the mid-2020s. The agency said Thursday that it plans to develop...
Executive Mosaic has named a basket of 30 publicly traded GovCon firms that will make up this year™s GovConIndex. The index, scheduled to relaunch on March 4th, is an amalgam of GovCon stocks representing a cross-industry analysis of the overall performance of the GovCon sector. Stock prices are listed in approximately real-time. The basket wil...
Eleven companies have secured blanket purchase agreements from the General Services Administration and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide Earth-observation products, data and services to government customers. Both agencies awarded the BPAs under the IT Schedule 70 acquisition vehicle and in support of the Commercial Initiati...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 16, 2018 ” SSL will design and establish requirements under an Environmental Defense Fund contract for the development of a small satellite that will work to monitor methane emissions from oil and gas plants, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) said Thursday its SSL business will co...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 21, 2018 ” SSL has deployed its solar electric propulsion system this year as part of two communications satellite launches as the company eyes further use of its electric engine technology in future space missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) company said Wednesday the&nb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 17, 2018 ” SSL continues its support for NASA‘s space exploration efforts with the deployment of a robotic arm to perform operations as part of the space agency’s current InSight mission to study the interior of Mars, ExecutiveBiz reported Dec. 4. The Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) company...
Maxar Technologies™ (NYSE: MAXR) DigitalGlobe subsidiary has secured a potential three-year, $900M contract extension from the National Reconnaissance Office to provide commercial imagery to the U.S. government through its WorldView Legion satellite constellation. NRO added three option years worth approximately $300M annually to the ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 29, 2018 ” Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) Radiant Solutions and SSL subsidiaries will collaborate to build a prototype space-based missile detection layer for the Missile Defense Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 3. SSL will lead the team, which also includes Systems Engineering Associates, as it works t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 22, 2018 ” SSL has entered into a public-private partnership with NASA to build two spacecraft technologies under the agency’s Tipping Point program that aims to utilize commercial space capabilities for government missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Oct. 1. Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) said O...
Maxar Technologies‘ (NYSE: MAXR) Radiant Solutions subsidiary has received a potential $92M contract option to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency prototype, build and implement crowdsourcing and machine learning technologies. Radiant Solutions aims to further develop its DeepCore computer vision software devel...
