A Chenega Corp. subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $146.3 million contract to provide security, emergency management and protective services to NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Chenega Infinity will help NASA manage physical security systems, access procedures, 911 dispatch activities and firefighting...
NASA has awarded separate contracts to five companies to perform concept studies for a future Mars orbiter mission as part of efforts to develop telecommunications and global high-resolution imaging tools to support the space agency’s exploration of the Red Planet. The agency said Monday its Jet Propulsion Laborat...
Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE:JEC) has received a $40.3 million task order from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center to carry out manned flight qualification tests on the agency’s Orion space capsule’s parachute system. Jacobs said Tuesday it will also produce, deliver and install flight parachutes for the first Orion E...
July 5 – July 8 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Americans everywhere celebrated the country™s 240th birthday Monday and those interested in the U.S. space program had another reason to cheer as NASA™s Juno vehicle arrived inside Ju...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 7, 2016 ” A scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received NASA‘s Distinguished Public Service Medal for his work to advance space exploration programs, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Tom Krimigis has contributed to the Voyager, Cassini Saturn Orbiter, New Frontie...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 7, 2016 ” Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has supported NASA‘s Juno mission to Jupiter by providing operations, maintenance and engineering support to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday it managed the operations cente...
NASA has awarded a $196.3 million contract extension to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy to continue its science operations support for the Hubble Space Telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The agency said Friday the extension brings the total contract value to $2 billion and requires products a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 2, 2016 ” A subsidiary of ASRC Federal will support NASA‘s Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership training programs for its technical workforce under a $21 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday ASRC Federal Data Solutions will help develop curricul...
NASA has exercised two one-year options on a previously awarded contract to Harris (NYSE: HRS) for communications, telemetry and tracking support to the International Space Station and various satellites in low-Earth orbit. The options increase the ceiling value of the company’s Space Communications Network Servic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 11, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has completed the installation of a second qualification motor for the Space Launch System boosters at a Utah facility ahead of a planned static-fire test on June 28, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday the QM-2 motor will be used in a NASA test of t...
