NASA is looking to enlist additional companies to crowdsource ideas and approaches to advance the agency mission through an on-ramp process for the second iteration of the Open Innovation Services contract vehicle. A solicitation notice posted on SAM.gov says the space agency will accept new proposals for the potential $175 million NOIS2 program unt...
Halvik has secured a potential five-year, $148.8 million task order to support information technology and customer service operations for NASA’s governmentwide IT contract vehicle. The Vienna, Virginia-based company will help the agency manage the Solutions for Enterprise-wide Procurement network, NASA said Wednesday. Work is scheduled to begi...
NASA intends to solicit proposals for the third iteration of the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services contract that has been supporting the directorates within the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. According to a presolicitation notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov, the OMES III contract will provide the Engineering and Technology Dir...
NASA will resume contract work with SpaceX on the development of a human landing system that would bring two astronauts to the surface of the moon after the U.S. Court of Federal Claims dismissed a bid protest by Blue Origin. The court’s decision upholds the space agency’s move to award a potential $2.89 billion contract...
A new McAleese & Associates report says NASA and Boeing (NYSE: BA) expect the next uncrewed flight test of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to occur in the first six months of 2022. Boeing and the space agency held a joint teleconference Tuesday to provide an update on Starliner and Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese...
The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration intend to propose a rule as a potential amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to mitigate the risk of climate change in federal agency procurements. The agencies are considering introducing the rule in accordance with an executive order released in May that seeks to co...
A Chenega Corp. subsidiary has won a pair of firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $581.8 million combined to provide support services at multiple NASA-run facilities. Chantilly, Virginia-based Chenega Global Protection will perform work under the space agency’s $328.3 million fire services contract and $253...
NASA has awarded a pair of contracts worth $253.4 million combined to General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation subsidiary and MagniX USA to develop and demonstrate electrified propulsion systems intended for commercial aircraft. The two companies will participate in the Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration project within a five-year period, ...
Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has secured a $600 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop an engine system for spacecraft to be used in NASA’s lunar exploration program. The company will help NASA integrate the Orion Main Engine into the primary power and propulsion module of the exploratory vehicle to replace a re...
NASA is inviting vendors to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for an eight-year, $480.15 million small business set-aside contracting vehicle for financial support services. The draft RFP notice, posted Friday on SAM.gov, says the agency plans to release by Nov. 24 the final solicitation document to identify a contractor that can supp...
