NASA Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy recently accepted her 2023 Wash100 Award from Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and creator of the elite recognition. For 10 years, the Wash100 Award has celebrated the government contracting industry’s most powerful leaders. Chosen through an intense selection process that weighs the pa...
NASA has chosen seven companies to carry out technology development projects to support the agency’s human space exploration and commercialization goals in low Earth orbit. Each participating vendor in the Collaborations for Commercial Space Capabilities-2 program will develop systems through an unfunded Space Act Agreement, the agency said Fr...
SpaceX has secured a task order to launch small satellite payloads into orbit under NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative program. The two CSLI missions will launch onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2025 as part of the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare initiative, NASA said Tuesday. Specific pa...
NASA has launched a full and open competition for interested vendors to design and build a next-generation lunar terrain vehicle capable of supporting crewed and uncrewed activities on the moon’s South Pole. The LTV Services contracting program covers the development, delivery and operations of the lunar surface rover for crewed missions begin...
NASA granted $98 million in Small Business Innovation Research funds to 92 companies with projects focused on mission areas such as climate science and space exploration. The awards were distributed among 112 proposals moving on to Phase II of the SBIR program, the agency said Wednesday. Among the SBIR Phase II grantees, 31 percent were...
Blue Origin has received a potential $3.4 billion contract from NASA to develop a human landing system for the Artemis V lunar mission. The company said Friday it will work with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA), Astrobotic, Draper and Honeybee Robotics to design, develop, test and demonstrate its Blue Moon lander under the...
Kathy Lueders, former associate administrator of NASA’s space operations mission directorate, has joined SpaceX as general manager with oversight of the Starship rocket program, CNBC reported Monday. She will directly report to Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a four-time Wash100 awardee, and work through th...
NASA has formed a consortium to equip the standard space mission life cycle with in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing innovations. The Aerospace Corp. was tasked with operating the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities to facilitate collaborative work among government agencies, companies, academic institutions and nonprofit e...
A joint venture between KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Intuitive Machines has booked a five-year, $719 million contract to engineer systems for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Space & Technology Solutions will develop and test new space and scientific technologies under the third iteration of the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Se...
A joint venture between Rothe Development and Ares Technical Services Corp. has secured a potential $814 million contract to help two NASA offices manage information technology and multimedia operations. The Rothe-Ares JV will provide support to the agency’s chief information officer and communications departments under the Enterprise Mu...
