NASA has started its formal solicitation for a new round of commercial services to conduct human landing system maturation and risk reduction work to help inform future routine crewed transportation from lunar orbit to the moon’s surface. The agency said Thursday it will award milestone-based contracts worth up to $45 million to each company t...
PAE‘s (Nasdaq: PAE) applied technologies unit has secured a potential $402 million contract to help NASA operate and maintain the Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA said Wednesday the company will also support Johnson engineering and construction projects and provide management support to the Sonny Carter Training Facility and Ellington Fie...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a $2.5 billion follow-on contract to provide information technology and communications network services to all facilities and centers run by NASA. The 10-year Advanced Enterprise Global Information Technology Solutions contract, slated to take effect Sept. 1, covers support for agencywide cloud computing, data center and ...
A joint venture between Aerodyne Industries and KBR Wyle Services has secured a potential five-year, $531 million contract to perform systems engineering work at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Aerodyne-SGT Engineering Services, also known as ASES, will help the agency develop, test and maintain ground and spacelight systems as...
NASA has started its search for additional U.S. companies that are willing to transport private astronauts to the International Space Station on two separate short-duration missions slated to occur in the 2022-2023 timeframe. These two new flight opportunities for the private sector came one month after NASA and Axiom Space signed an agreement to co...
A consortium of Oak Ridge, Tennessee-based universities has secured a potential $129.7 million contract to continue to help NASA manage a fellowship program that recruits scientists and engineers who have earned a PhD to perform research work for the space agency. Oak Ridge Associated Universities will administer and coordinate agency-wide research ...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will design, develop and operate the spacecraft for two missions NASA selected to explore Venus as part of the agency’s Discovery Program. The space agency expects the two missions – Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and Imaging Plus or DAVINCI+ and Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSA...
Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has secured a potential $90 million contract to build a laser-based technology to measure the temperature, pressure, carbon dioxide and oxygen within the Orion spacecraft during NASA’s planned human missions to the moon. Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics will produce the Laser Air Mo...
A joint venture between Banner Quality Management Inc. and Peerless Technologies will continue to support information technology operations at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio under a five-year, $233.2 million contract. The BQMI-Peerless JV will perform IT work for the Cleveland-based agency center and the Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility i...
Woman-owned company Manufacturing Technical Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $463 million contract to perform consolidated program support services for two NASA space centers in Alabama and Texas. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, MTS will receive task orders to provide knowledge and expertise in the program, pl...
