Peraton will support the maintenance and operation of communications systems for NASA’s Deep Space Network Program under a $513.5 million subcontract from agency-sponsored Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The company said Thursday it will maintain four antenna stations equipped with parabolic dish antennas and ultra-sensitive receivers at the Goldstone ...
Eleven companies have been named in the latest batch of NASA’s Tipping Point partners that will develop technologies that could support lunar surface and space exploration missions. The agency said Tuesday it expects to contribute a total of $150 million to fund the projects and each award recipient will shoulder at least 10 to 25...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) will provide flight crew operations, analyst training, mission preparation and execution support to the International Space Station and future human spaceflight programs under NASA’s potential nine-year, $1.93 billion Integrated Mission Operations Contract III. Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Barrios Technology will serve as major subc...
NASA has launched a full and open competition for interested vendors to design and build a single-channel, near-infrared optical detector for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite system. The space agency intends to award a 15-year cost-plus-award-fee contract for the development of...
Peraton has secured a potential five-year, $330.3 million contract from NASA to take over the responsibility of supporting suborbital flight operations at Wallops Flight Facility. Under the Sounding Rocket Operations IV contract, Peraton will perform suborbital payload design, fabrication and integration activities and conduct flight qualification t...
Mainthia Technologies, a space systems operations and engineering company, won a potential $155 million contract to provide maintenance, operations, repair and institutional services to two of NASA’s facilities. The contract is intended to support the Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, and the Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cle...
Huntsville, Alabama-based company Colsa has won a potential $400 million contract to support the NASA Shared Services Center. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract comprises human resources support, financial management and procurement services, NASA said Saturday. The award has a base performance period of two years...
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...
