TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 2, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and its partners will work on the preliminary design of the Quiet Supersonic Transport X-plane under a $20 million task order award from NASA, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The space agency said Tuesday the award is part of its New Aviation Horizons program, whi...
SpaceX has been awarded five additional flights by NASA to transport cargo to and from the International Space Station under a contract signed in December 2015, Space News reported Wednesday. Peter B. de Selding writes the flights are valued at approximately $700 million total and raises to 20 the number of ISS cargo flights that NASA...
A team comprising Dynetics and Radiance Technologies team has been selected to build the core stage Pathfinder vehicle for NASA™s Space Launch System under a delivery order awarded through a potential five-year, $350 million contract vehicle. Team technical lead Dynetics said Thursday the companies will work to fabricate, assemble and transport...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 5, 2016 ” Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has delivered the Orion crew module to NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center, where it will undergo tests before engineers integrate it with other spacecraft hardware, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the Orion spacecraft will launch as part of&nbs...
Mori Associates has received a potential five-year, $300 million contract from NASA to provide information technology, multimedia and communication services to the Johnson Space Center in Texas. NASA said Tuesday work on the cost-plus-award-fee contract will begin April 1 and covers support to JSC’s information resourc...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 25, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received recognition from NASA‘s Johnson Space Center as its large business prime contractor of the year for the company’s work with small businesses on JSC programs, GovCon Executive reported Friday. Raytheon said Friday it currently provides support for the Neutra...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 19, 2016 ” Unisys (NYSE: UIS) will provide flight simulation hardware and software support to NASA‘s Langley Research Center under a five-year, $38.4 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. NASA said Friday the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract includes systems design, development, validation, modificati...
Jan. 11 – Jan. 15 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson America’s space program appears to be the place where government and industry are taking concrete steps toward increased public-private partnerships as a means to spur innovation on both ...
NASA has awarded Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), Sierra Nevada and SpaceX a second round of potential multi-billion dollar contracts to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station through 2024 in support of efforts to end U.S. reliance on Russia for access to space by 2017, agency officials said Thursday. Each new Commercial Resupply...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 11, 2016 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) let NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Eric Boe do a trial run of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft using company-built training devices, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Boeing said Thursday these devices are equipped with CST-100’s switches and display panels to prepare the...
