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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (NYSE: BLL) has appointed Rob Strain, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center director, as chief operating officer effective March 2012.. Ball Aerospace said Strain will oversee the company’s operations and will lead support functions including: engineering program execution mission assurance informati...
Global Technology Resource Inc. has won a prime position on a potential $5.6 billion government-wide information technology contract, GTRI announced Wednesday. NASA said its Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle provides IT products to all federal agencies, including UNIX-, Linux- and Windows-based computer systems with peripherals. GTR...
Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $370 million sole source contract from NASA to perform a test flight of Lockheed’s Orion crew vehicle, NextGov reports. NASA issued a justification notice for the contract Thursday, saying only Lockheed could fulfill the space agency’s requirements for the test flight. NASA said the test wo...
RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW) stockholders voted to approve Oracle Corp.’s acquisition of RightNow (NASDAQ: ORCL) at a meeting Thursday. Oracle agreed to buy RightNow in October for nearly $1.4 billion in cash, or $43.00 per share (see our previous story on TheNewNewInternet here). RightNow’s federal customers include NASA, the So...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $165 million option by NASA that extends the Facilities Development and Operations contract the company originally won in 2009 through Sept. 30, 2013. The total contract is now worth $919.5 million with one more option available to be exercised. Under the contract, Lockheed will continue to provi...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has won a $289 million contract modification from NASA to build an additional tracking and data relay satellite, the sixth satellite Boeing will have built for the agency. The company indicated it has already delivered three TDRS satellites to NASA and has two more in the pipeline under a $700 million fixed-price contract...
NASA has awarded TASC Inc. a cost-plus-award-fee contract potentially worth $133.9 million to provide software services to the agency’s independent verification and validation facility in Fairmont, W.Va. The contract has a total period of performance of five years, including options. A NASA announcement of the award said TASC’s support...
Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) has received a $41 million contract modification to continue providing financial management, human resources, procurement and information technology support services to NASA. The modification exercises the second option period for the NASA Shared Services Center contract. The NSSC is a cooperative partnership betw...
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a $30 million contract to provide microwave equipment for a polar weather satellite. The company will provide microwave temperature-sounding instruments used to forecast weather for the military and collect climate information. NASA awarded the contract on behalf of the National Oceanic and...
Ball Aerospace (NYSE: BLL) will be awarded up to $600, 000 to study the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellants in space under a six-month contract with NASA. Ball will help develop a mission concept to test key technologies required for deep space exploration. NASA is pursuing human missions to an asteroid by 2025, under a directive from ...
