Six companies have won contracts worth approximately $44 million combined from NASA to develop 10 technology platforms for space exploration. NASA said Thursday it selected the proposals through its Tipping Point solicitation that seeks to address the space technology mission directorate™s three technology focus areas through public-privat...
A joint venture that includes PAE has received a potential eight-year, $608.7 million contract to support the institutional activities at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center and other agency facilities close to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. PAE-SGT Partners will operate, maintain and engineer assigned facilities, equipment an...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 3, 2018 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has completed its clean-room work to prepare NASA‘s Parker Solar Probe for launch after mating the spacecraft to Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) Star 48BV rocket motor and encasing it within its fairing, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursd...
NASA has tapped four companies to provide integration and launch services for a program that aims to leverage commercial suborbital reusable platforms to test new technologies near the boundary of space. The Flight Opportunities Program will involve Aerostar International, Blue Origin Texas, UP Aerospace and World View Enterprises launching res...
COLSA has secured a potential $107.4 million contract to support operations at a federal data shared services facility located at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. NASA said Tuesday the NCCIPS Version Two contract has a 60-day phase-in period that will commence on Aug. 1, four option years and an additiona...
The joint venture of SaiTech and Venesco will provide a range of information technology support services to the IT and communications division at NASA’s headquarters in Washington under a potential five-year, $243 million contract. NASA said Tuesday the JV will help the division plan and manage information systems, support applicatio...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 9, 2018 ” Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has helped NASA fully integrate a spacecraft that will work to study the sun™s corona as part of a mission that will launch in August, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The space agency said Thursday the Parker Solar Probe has been equipped with the...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CmtZLKgIWs NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine discusses the findings of the Independent Review Board on one of our flagship missions, the James Webb Space Telescope. Despite Webb™s major challenges during the final testing and integration phase, the board and NASA unanimously agreed that Webb will achieve missio...
The California Institute of Technology has secured a potential 10-year, $30 billion contract to continue operations support at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech will help the space agency develop and sustain key JPL programs in the astrophysics, aeronautics, heliophysics, Earth and planetary sciences and space t...
Todd May, director of NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center, has been named vice president of space strategy for KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) government services arm. He will formally join KBRwyle in July and will also lead the unit’s systems analysis and services division that serves federal civilian and defense custom...
