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Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) reportedly will manufacture three more GPS III Follow-On military communications satellites under a $737 million contract option from the U.S. Space Force, SpaceNews reported Thursday. USSF ordered space vehicles 15, 16 and 17 as part of a potential $7.2 billion GPS IIIF fixed-price-type production contract the U.S. Air F...
Embedded Ventures has agreed to help the U.S. Space Force examine how venture capital investments can drive innovation in the space industry. The California-based VC firm said it signed a cooperative research and development agreement with USSF’s SpaceWERX organization as the military branch looks to pursue new space-based technologies through...
Geospark Analytics has received a four-year contract to help the State Department expand the use of a company-built artificial intelligence-based platform for assessing global threats and risks. The department intends to deploy the Hyperion technology to monitor and forecast emerging events in real time as part of diplomatic security missions worldw...
Sev1Tech has won a $47.5 million contract to develop a data transport-as-a-service platform for the U.S. Space Force. The Woodbridge, Virginia-based information technology company will aim to build and demonstrate the DTaaS prototype for the branch’s mission partners as part of the meshONE-Terrestrial program, the Space Systems Command said Mo...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has awarded prototype agreements worth $87.5 million combined to four companies to advance testing of next-generation rocket engines and improve the resiliency of upper stages, SpaceRef reported Friday. The command’s Launch Enterprise awarded the prototype projects to SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, R...
The U.S. Space Force has named ABL Space Systems, Astra Space and Relativity Space as the first on-ramp awardees on the Orbital Services Program-4 contract vehicle as part of efforts to expand the pool of vendors that could help launch payloads larger than 400 pounds to orbit within one to two years from task order...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) helped the U.S. Space Force send a payload into orbit Sunday using an air-launched rocket to demonstrate a rapid response mission for emerging military requirements. A Pegasus XL carried the Tactically Responsive Launch-2 mission to low Earth orbit as part of the branch’s technology demonstration satellite program ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Millennium Space Systems have received separate contracts to create digital models of sensor technology for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite constellation. The Missile Track Custody Prototype contracts call for the two companies to perform modeling work as part of the Next Generation...
The U.S. Space Force intends to release a request for proposals by June 30 to develop prototypes of deep space radar sensors that can monitor satellites and space debris in geostationary orbits, SpaceNews reported Sunday. The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium plans to select one or more vendors to build prototype conce...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 27, 2021 — LMI has pledged to help a nonprofit advocacy group create professional development programs for the U.S. Space Force as well as the private and academic sectors through a new center of excellence, ExecutiveBiz reported April 9. Robert Lech, vice president of LMI’s defense market, said the management consultanc...
