NASA is looking to procure financial support services through an agency-wide, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract reserved for small businesses. A special notice posted Friday on SAM says all agency facilities could use the planned eight-year, NFSS procurement vehicle that will include a phase-in period of 30 days and three two-year opt...
SpaceX has secured a contract to help NASA deploy spacecraft as early as June 2024 for an astrophysics mission that aims to discover more about the universe through observations in near-infrared light. NASA said Friday it expects to spend $98.8 million on launch services for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionizati...
Firefly Aerospace has received a potential $93.3 million task order from NASA under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative to bring a suite of 10 technology demonstrations and science investigations to the lunar surface in 2023....
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has issued sources sought notice to identify potential launch services providers that can support a mission to explore Jupiter's Europa moon. The notice, posted Tuesday on SAM, calls for interested parties to submit statements on their capabilities to help the agency integrate payload and send spacecr...
Agencies obligated $7.9 billion on information technology contracts under the fifth iteration of NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle during fiscal year 2020, a 41 percent increase from the prior year, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The report said SEWP V was the top IT governmentwide procurement vehicle in FY 2020...
Jim Bridenstine, former administrator of NASA and a previous Wash100 awardee, has joined Acorn Growth Companies, an Oklahoma City-based private equity firm focused on investing in defense, aerospace and intelligence companies, as a senior adviser. “Jim’s wealth of knowledge in the space, military, aerospace and engineering sectors will be invalu...
ASRC Federal Agile Decision Sciences has been awarded the five-year, $212M NASA Research and Education Support Services contract for professional services and information technology support to the space agency. The company said Tuesday its ADS subsidiary will also work with NASA’s Office of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Enga...
NASA has released a draft announcement of opportunity seeking astrophysics research proposals as part of a potential $290M initiative under the Science Mission Directorate’s Explorers Program....
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will help NASA study electric currents across Earth’s atmosphere as part of a potential $53.3M space exploration mission the agency plans to launch by June 2024....
Blue Origin has secured a position on the NASA Launch Services II contract vehicle as an “on-ramp” awardee, which provides Jeff Bezos' space venture an opportunity to compete for orders to help the agency deploy spacecraft using its New Glenn rocket....
