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...
NASA has issued a request for proposals for the second iteration of a potential nine-year, $478 million contract to provide research and engineering services for the International Space Station. Research, Engineering and Mission Integration Services 2 is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers spaceflight and g...
NASA and Arlington, Virginia-based venture firm FedTech have partnered to launch a business incubation program that will team up license-ripe agency patents with entrepreneurs developing climate-related innovations. Startup Studio will spearhead a 16-week workshop in June for the chosen technology and enterprise participants, who are expected to pre...
NASA is looking to consolidate contracts for acquiring cloud services from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google into a single reseller delivery order worth potentially $685.8 million. The consolidated order for agency-wide cloud services will be open to small business resellers capable of providing access to all three cloud service providers un...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $320 million contract to repair, operate, maintain and engineer facilities for NASA. The ROME indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded to ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics encompasses architect-engineering, construction, operations and maintenance and information resources...
NASA has issued a request for proposals for a potential five-year, $476 million program to acquire Earth observation data derived from constellations of small satellites operated by commercial entities. The space agency plans to conduct the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program as a full and open competition with an on-ramp mechanism to provi...
Twelve companies and two academic organizations received a total of $50 million in NASA’s latest round of funding for the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project. The awardees are members of NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium, which will match the funds they received, the space agency said Friday. HiCAM’s production con...
