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The U.S. Space Force has released the second round of draft requests for proposals incorporating industry feedback from the first draft solicitations and describing the “dual-lane” approach to acquisition under the third phase of the National Security Space Launch program. Space Systems Command said Friday over 20 vendors participated in an ...

Atlas Space Operations has appointed U.S. Air Force and industry veteran John Williams as CEO and launched a new subsidiary focused on supporting government missions. Williams most recently served as vice president of real-time Earth at Viasat (Nasdaq: VSAT), where he was responsible for the development of the company’s ground station-as-a-ser...

David “Heat” Lyons, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has joined Scientific Systems Co. Inc. as vice president of business development. He will bring to the role over three decades of aerospace and defense industry experience as he oversees SSCI’s client base and new markets, the company said Thursday. Lyons, a global strike subjec...

The U.S. Space Force has released a draft request for proposals to solicit information on potential industry sources that could meet the requirements of a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion contract to provide advisory and assistance services to help build and sustain weapons systems for Space Systems Command. USSF intends to compete the Hemisphere pro...

Conn Doherty, former vice president of strategic campaigns at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, has been appointed to vice president and general manager roles at Collins Aerospace. Doherty announced his new post Monday on LinkedIn and will be responsible for Collins Aerospace’s battlespace management command and control and autonomy platforms...

SpaceX and United Launch Alliance secured six new assignments each under a follow-on U.S. Space Force procurement vehicles for national security space launch services. Space Systems Command said Thursday that SpaceX will launch five missions for the Space Development Agency’s missile warning and tracking constellation and one classified USSF m...

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a $29 million contract to design an overhead persistent infrared sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite network. The company will conduct an initial one-year OPIR sensor payload design for the first increment of Space Systems Command’s medium-Earth orbit c...

Private equity firm FR Capital has purchased data management and communications technology provider Fregata Systems in a bid to penetrate the market for command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. The acquisition is one of FR Capital’s planned strategic investments in the C5ISR se...

Since the 1980s, the United States has been pivoting along an ever-evolving tract of developing technologies to protect against and respond to adversarial missile attacks. The Missile Defense Agency (once the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) aims to be agile in its stance toward threats from r...