Marshall Smith, former deputy associate administrator for systems engineering and integration within a NASA directorate, has joined Voyager Space Holdings subsidiary Nanoracks to serve as senior vice president of commercial space stations. Voyager said Monday Smith will oversee Nanoracks’ commercial space services from a new Huntsville, Alabam...
NASA intends to exercise a two-year option on its $500 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that supports research and engineering requirements of the International Space Station. The agency said Saturday it will extend the performance period for the Research, Engineering, Mission Integration Services Contract in a strategy to es...
Heather Murren, a financial services industry veteran who has served on the board of managers at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory since 2013, began serving as chair of the same board on July 1. She succeeds Michael Hankin, who led APL’s board of managers over the past six years and will continue to serve...
Ronda Sanborn, former director of program operations at System High Corp., has been promoted as vice president of special programs at the Chantilly Virginia-based protection and security engineering services provider. She will oversee System High’s special access program portfolio and brings more than three decades of public and private sector...
Washington, D.C.-based technology company Babel Street has appointed former senior government officials Robert Ashley, David Glaser, Ellen McCarthy and Harry Wetherbee to its newly formed board of advisers. They will advise Babel Street’s leadership team on approaches to help customers apply its artificial intelligence-based analytics platform...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2021 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will help the Social Security Administration build and maintain software applications as part of the agency’s business process automation project under a five-year, $20 million recompete contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said July 14 it will incorporate the apps into t...
Jim Cushman, a technology industry veteran, has joined mobile enterprise security company Hypori as president of commercial markets and chief product officer. He will oversee the company’s strategic growth initiatives and expansion into health care, fintech and other commercial markets and is expected to use his three decades of product developmen...
NASA is looking for contractors to design free-flying facilities for the initial phase of a low-Earth orbit marketplace the space agency wants to establish for use by public and private sector customers. Interested vendors must submit proposals for commercially owned and operated LEO destinations by Aug. 26 and the agency expects to award up to...
Momentus has appointed John Rood, former undersecretary of the Department of Defense for policy, to serve as its CEO starting Aug. 1, ahead of its planned merger with Stable Road Acquisition Corp. Rood will take over from Dawn Harms, who will return to her duties as chief revenue officer after temporarily holding the top executive...
Alan Shaffer, former deputy undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense, has joined the government security committee of semiconductor manufacturing company GlobalFoundries. He joins a panel that advises the Malta, New York-based company’s management team on government, political affairs and security matters,...
