NASA has kicked off a full and open competition for a potential eight-year, $400 million contract for functional activity support to the agency’s Shared Services Center. A selected vendor will assist NSSC in various areas such as intelligent automation, business services, procurement, financial management and human resources, according to a so...
Leaders from disparate parts of the U.S. government have encouraged members of the government contracting industry who may be concerned about secure ideas and blueprints being leaked or compromised during the acquisition process to enter the exchange as early as possible. This would mean getting on the ground floor so as to prevent risking their...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has booked a $1.99 billion order from NASA to manufacture Orion spacecraft for an additional three human space exploration missions under the Artemis program. The space agency placed the order under the $4.6 billion Orion Production and Operations Contract to procure vehicles for Artemis VI through VIII missions, Lockheed...
NASA has awarded contracts to SpaceLink and the U.S. arm of Kongsberg Satellite Services to conduct studies aimed at exploring industry capabilities to provide commercial direct-to-Earth and lunar space relay communications and navigation services in support of Artemis lunar exploration missions. The space agency said Wednesday it awarded SpaceLink ...
NASA has issued a presolicitation notice on a potential five-year, $375 million contract vehicle that will consolidate procurement efforts for environmental restoration and compliance services across the space agency. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers technical consultation, contamination detection, sampling and remediation...
Three companies have won spots on a potential three-year, $149 million contract to provide helium products to various NASA facilities. Air Products and Chemicals, Messer and Linde will supply 87.7 million standard cubic feet of gaseous helium and 1.4 million liters of liquid helium in support of the International Space Station program, the Artemis l...
Six companies have received seven contracts from NASA to build inflatable aerodynamic decelerator systems for spacecraft entry, descent and landing operations and aerocapture missions. The vendors will compete for task orders to design, produce and test materials, subassemblies, components, flight articles, engineering development units and concept ...
NASA is inviting potential offerors to review and give feedback on a planned acquisition program for Earth observation data from commercial small satellites. The space agency wants to procure smallsat data products and services through a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth potentially $476 million over five years. ...
Engineering consulting company ERC has secured a potential five-year, $145 million contract that covers laboratory support services and operations at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Under the LASSO II award, ERC will operate and maintain developmental shops, laboratories and test facilities that support the KSC Center Engineering, Safety and Oper...
NASA has started soliciting proposals for a program to build and demonstrate astronaut moon landers for future Artemis lunar missions. The space agency said Saturday it expects the Human Landing System Sustaining Lunar Development program to create the way for companies to offer recurring lunar landing services beyond the Artemis III mission. “Wor...
