Relativity Space has received its first contract from the Department of Defense to deploy a small military satellite to orbit using the company’s 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket. The Defense Innovation Unit issued the award as part of the department’s Space Test Program Rapid Agile Launch Initiative, which seeks commercial low-Earth orbit pl...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a one-year, $81.9 million contract to sustain, test and engineer MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The company will also provide technical and field support under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to ensure the company-built UAS’ readiness for military intelligence, surveillance ...
Since its inception in 2019, the Space Development Agency (SDA) has continually worked to develop and modernize architecture concepts, systems designs, innovative technologies and emerging capabilities to enable leaders across the space domain to leverage next-generation space capabilities that increase warfighters’ lethality, maneuverability and ...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) space business has received contract options worth $558.8 million combined to manufacture Trident II (D5) submarine-launched ballistic missile systems for the U.S. and U.K. navies. The U.S. Navy will obligate $485.1 million on the award while its British counterpart will provide the remaining $73.7 million, the De...
National Defense Corp.’s Amtec subsidiary will supply 40-millimeter grenade systems to the U.S. Army as part of a potential $92.9 million contract modification. The service branch also ordered M385A1 and M918 projectiles through the award and expects work to conclude by Feb. 28, 2023, the Department of Defense said Friday. Janesville, Wisconsi...
Zachary Lemnios and Terry Halvorsen of IBM (NYSE: IBM) said the company has led the development of a marketplace in a hybrid cloud environment meant to secure the development and production of microelectronics for the Department of Defense and commercial industry. IBM established the Marketplace for Advanced, Rapid, Quantifiably-assured, Trusted Sem...
Stacy Kubieck, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin’s Mission Solutions, acted as the moderator for an expert panel discussion during Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 SDA Forum on March 4th, 2021. The following panelists discussed SDA’s multi-year plan to create cutting edge satellite constellation networks to provide U.S. militar...
SEAKR Engineering has won a two-year, $60.5 million contract to further develop supercomputing processing hardware in the next phases of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aiming to integrate commercial technology into small military satellites. DARPA will initially obligate $8.06 million to the Centennial, Colorado-based space elec...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 11 companies positions on a potential six-year, $778.9 million contract to provide engineering and technical services in support of the modernization of the service’s hull, mechanical and electrical systems. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division received 11 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delive...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has been awarded a one-year, $155.2 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead materials in preparation for lot 6 production of CH-53K King Stallion helicopters. The award is for parts and components needed to manufacture nine CH-53K aircraft, the Department of Defense s...
