Donald Speranzini, a defense and space industry veteran, has assumed the role of vice president and general manager of ground systems and services at Ball Corp.’s (NYSE: BALL) aerospace business, he announced in a LinkedIn post. In this capacity, he works with customers in the defense and intelligence community to deliver ground systems and comman...
SpaceX and United Launch Alliance have been assigned 21 launch service missions for fiscal year 2024 under phase 2 of the U.S. Space Force national security space launch contract vehicle. Space Systems Command said Tuesday SpaceX received 10 mission assignments while ULA received 11 missions that are expected to launch over the next two to...
Cordell DeLaPena, program executive officer for military communications and positioning, navigation, and timing at Space Systems Command, said the U.S. Space Force plans to release in January a request for proposals for the space vehicle segment of a potential $8 billion satellite constellation designed to provide nuclear command, control and commun...
Space Operations Command’s Space Acquisition and Integration Office has begun seeking proposals for a potential 10-year, $480 million small business set-aside indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for satellite control network support services. The STORMS contract vehicle will provide SpOC’s Space Delta 6 with operations and o...
The U.S. Space Force has issued two solicitations for the third phase of the National Security Space Launch program. The service has adopted a dual-lane approach to acquisition under NSSL Phase 3 to ensure assured access to space and meet warfighter needs, according to solicitation notices published Wednesday. Under the first lane, the service plans...
SpaceX will use its new satellite network to provide high-speed broadband, alternative positioning, navigation and timing and space domain awareness support for the U.S. Space Force under a potential $70 million contract with the service branch, Air & Space Forces Magazine reported Wednesday. Starshield is composed of satellites in low-Earth orb...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has secured a seven-year, $630 million contract to provide the U.S. Space Force with systems engineering and integration services for space sensing capabilities, such as the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared satellites. The project builds on Booz Allen’s existing partnership with the Space Systems Com...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has won a $574.5 million task order to help the U.S. Space Force update and sustain a global network of ground-based radar systems. Space Systems Command received four bids for the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract via a competitive acquisition and is obligating $43.8 million in fiscal 2023 operat...
Collins Aerospace will perform tactical mission network services in support of the U.S. Special Operations Command under a $62 million contract. The RTX (NYSE: RTX) business will provide SOCOM’s Technology Applications Program Office with logistics assistance and life-cycle support for avionics and cockpit systems over a five-year period, the ...
All of the four-star generals of the U.S. Air Force and the vast majority of three-stars assembled in June at a table top exercise that demonstrated various scenarios regarding strategic maneuvers required when carrying out logistics in contested settings and conditions. The service’s leaders saw it as a highly beneficial process that is nece...
