Mark Baird, a retired Air Force brigadier general, has been named president of Virgin Orbit’s VOX Space subsidiary. He brings to the role over three decades of aerospace experience as VOX Space works to further advance the delivery of launch services in support of customers in the national security community, the company said Tuesday. “Mark...
Phantom Space has acquired Micro Aerospace Solutions for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to build up its mass manufacturing capabilities for satellites, propulsion systems, launch vehicles and other space transportation technologies. Melbourne, Florida-based MAS has been developing microsatellites, propulsion systems, thruster design, computer...
Potomac Officers Club (POC) hosted its Space Intelligence Forum on Tuesday to bring together renowned leaders from across industry and the federal landscape to discuss the advancement of space-based capabilities and intelligence. Brig. Gen. Gregory Gagnon, director of Intelligence for the U.S. Space Command, served as the keynote speaker during the ...
U.S. Space Command leaders have emphasized the importance of intelligence data, commercial technology and workforce diversity in its mission to help other combatant commands protect the country’s space assets from adversarial threats. Sean Kirkpatrick, deputy director of intelligence at SPACECOM, said the U.S. must leverage space technology be...
Pamela Lincoln, a three-decade U.S. military veteran, has joined Systems Planning and Analysis to direct the company’s program development efforts for the Air Force and Space Force. The retired AF major general will lead the development of national security space offerings and explore space and air platforms for potential integration with SPA&...
Braxton Technologies, now part of Parsons (NYSE: PSN), has secured a $139.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Space Force to continue ground-based satellite systems support at the Space and Missiles Systems Center. The company is helping the service branch prototype, integrate and manage network, infrastructure, architecture and hardware s...
Recent developments in anti-satellite and space-based weaponry by foreign adversaries has prompted the Department of Defense (DOD) to rapidly develop and deploy secure space intelligence sensors that will arm military leaders with information supremacy and warfighters with tactical advantages over adversaries. During Potomac Officers Club’s Space ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — David Appel, vice president of command and control data solutions at Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTN) intelligence and space business, said an open systems architecture has the potential to speed up data processing for the Department of Defense’s signals intelligence mission, ExecutiveBiz reported J...
Saab Inc., the Swedish aerospace and defense contractor’s U.S. subsidiary, has won a potential $127.9 million contract to provide instrumentation systems to the U.S. Marine Corps for tactical engagement training use. The company said Thursday it will replace the military branch’s instrumented and tactical engagement simulation system wit...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has won a potential $185 million contract to help the U.S. Space Force update a government-owned software suite that supports situational awareness efforts at the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. The Space and Missile Systems Center’s special programs directorate awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for...
