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...
NASA has asked industry to submit feedback on a draft performance work statement for the Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering and Test contract that will replace the Kennedy Space Center’s Test and Operations Support Contract. The proposed COMET contract will include management services for KSC’s launch infrastructure and ground proc...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a five-year, $275 million contract to help NASA update the hardware and software of an Earth data management system. The company will engineer on-premise and cloud-based applications for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System as part of the EOSDIS Evolution and Development-3 contract, the...
NASA is seeking additional developers of satellite bus core systems and support services to participate in the second on-ramp solicitation process under the multiple-award $6 billion Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV program. The agency indicated its intent to expand the Rapid IV Catalog in a request for proposals notice posted Thursday on SAM .gov. B...
SpaceX has won a potential $2.89 billion contract from NASA to continue development work on its human landing system that would transport two astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA said Saturday it awarded the firm-fixed-price contract under the Appendix H broad agency announcement of the Next Space...
NASA’s Launch Services Program has initiated an on-ramp process that resulted in the addition of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket to the NASA Launch Services II indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. “ULA is honored that NASA LSP has added our Vulcan Centaur rocket to the catalogue of launch vehicles available to suppo...
Mike Gold, former associate administrator for space policy and partnerships at NASA, has joined Redwire as executive vice president of civil space business development and external affairs. Redwire said Tuesday that Gold will build on his experience handling space innovation, regulatory issues and relationships between public and private sector...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 26, 2021 — Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has helped NASA build a cloud-based system to process data from the agency’s Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich climate monitoring satellite as part of the Earth Science Data and Information Systems project, ExecutiveBiz reported March 17. The company said March 16 its intelligen...
The White House intends to nominate Bill Nelson, a former senator from Florida, to serve as NASA administrator, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Sources said the Biden administration is expected to announce Nelson’s nomination as early as Friday, March 19. Nelson, a Democrat who served three terms in the Senate, was ranking member of the Senate Commer...
ASRC Federal‘s Agile Decision Sciences subsidiary will help NASA manage spectrum utilization and analyze radio frequency interference as part of a potential five-year, $74.8 million contract awarded in February. The company said Monday its ADS group will also provide support services to NASA’s space communication and navigation division ...
