NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a draft request for proposals for the instrument suite of a next-generation satellite constellation intended to collect space-based imagery of Earth’s land surface. The center is soliciting comments on presolicitation documents related to Landsat Next, a joint project between NASA and the U...
A website developed by NASA’s Office of Procurement to attract acquisition ideas and approaches from diverse industry sources is now live. Government and industry users of the NASA Acquisition Innovation Launchpad can provide input on how to eliminate barriers to entry in contracting programs and reduce the burden on industry, the space agency...
Navarro Research and Engineering has received a five-year, $80 million contract to continue support for environmental compliance and operations at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The company will help the agency manage programs to restore the ecosystem around the facility, comply with relevant policies and maintain ...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) will continue to provide simulation and software technology support to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Texas under a $150 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company’s federal arm will perform tasks for the Johnson Space Center Engineering Directorate in disciplines such as aerosci...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary and SpaceX have secured spots on a potential 10-year, $100 million contract to process payload and rocket payload for NASA missions. The Spacecraft Processing Operations Contract comprises task orders to perform work on systems prior to arrival at launch pads, the agency said ...
NASA is seeking comments on a draft solicitation for a potential $98.1 million contract that will support the development and operations of space flight systems development and operations at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov says the Space Flight Systems Development and Operations Contract III cal...
NASA has developed an objective-based procurement strategy to advance its ongoing Moon to Mars initiative, according to Karla Jackson, senior procurement executive and deputy chief acquisition officer at the space agency. While traditional Department of Defense procurement is based on capabilities, the objective-based approach is built around concr...
An industry team led by Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a contract from NASA to develop and test a Transonic Truss-Braced Wing demonstrator aircraft as part of the space agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project. NASA will invest $425 million in the development of the TTBW demonstrator over a seven-year period, while Boeing and its industry...
NASA and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have agreed to jointly develop and test systems that can support the use of unmanned aircraft systems in air cargo operations and the rest of the country’s airspace. The collaboration falls under the Pathfinding for Airspace with Autonomous Vehicles subproject under NASA’s Air Traffic Management-eXpl...
NASA plans to release by the end of February a request for proposals for a potential eight-year contract vehicle that will serve as an enterprise platform to centralize information technology services, including IT systems maintenance and development of new applications, in support of the space agency’s centers and facilities. The proposed NASA Co...
