The Space Development Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and York Space Systems prototype agreements valued at approximately $1.8 billion combined to build and demonstrate 126 satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The Tranche 1 Transport Layer is exp...
On Wednesday, top executive officials from federal space agencies and industry spoke on optimizing acquisition processes, accelerating technology innovation and creating more interoperable systems in the wake of massive space sector reorganization and reinvigoration efforts during GovCon Wire Events’ Space Acquisition Forum. Following an ...
The Space Development Agency is seeking a contractor to establish the ground infrastructure that will support SDA’s future missile detection and tracking satellite constellation. Interested parties should provide the agency electronic proposals for the design, development and delivery of Tranche 1 operations and integration segment, according ...
The Space Development Agency has released a draft solicitation for a program to design and build satellite prototypes for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s tracking layer and will use other transaction authority as a contracting mechanism for the prototyping effort. SDA expects the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer to help dete...
Satellite imagery provider Planet Labs expects to complete its pending merger with dMY Technology Group (NYSE: DMYQ) on Tuesday and receive post-closure proceeds of approximately $590 million. Shareholders at the special purpose acquisition company voted Friday to approve the combination of the two companies, which will subsequently do business as P...
Two Six Technologies has named Daniel Ragsdale and Greg Bitel to vice president roles as part of a strategy aimed at driving the company’s business expansion initiatives within the U.S. government market and related sectors. Ragsdale, formerly VP-architect of Two Six, will now lead its research and development portfolio that includes support w...
The Space Development Agency has issued a draft request for proposals for a program to provide demonstration and experimentation capabilities for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System seeks to supplement the Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellite constell...
The Space Development Agency has sought proposals from industry to design and build satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. SDA expects the Tranche 1 Transport Layer to support warfighter missions worldwide by providing initial warfighting capability, global communications access and persisten...
Jerry Black, program manager for Criterion Systems’ U.S. Department of Agriculture Information Technology Support Services contract, has been elevated to a vice president role at the Vienna, Virginia-based IT contractor. Black has three decades of IT experience and has played a role in federal civilian market expansion efforts, primarily withi...
Daniel Ragsdale, former principal director for cyber in the Department of Defense’s research and engineering office, has been appointed vice president and architect at Arlington, Virginia-based Two Six Technologies. The retired U.S. Army colonel brings his three decades of military experience and his knowledge of cybersecurity to the technolog...
