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The U.S. Space Force has awarded United Launch Services and SpaceX firm-fixed-price contracts to perform launch services under the second phase of the National Security Space Launch program.

Lt. Gen. John “JT” Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, said the U.S. Space Force is on schedule to award this summer contracts to two launch service providers under the second phase of the National Security Space Launch program, Via Satellite reported Thursday.

Blue Origin, Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) Dynetics subsidiary and SpaceX have won 10-month contracts worth $967M combined to design and build human landing systems for NASA's Artemis moon mission in 2024.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 27, 2020 — Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) space segment and a 2020 Wash100 winner, has said the U.S. has capability to take astronauts back to the moon, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday.

Five companies have won spots on NASA’s potential $2.6B Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, bringing the total number of awardees to 14.

Blue Origin has teamed up with three other companies to build and offer a delivery system for NASA's mission to put astronauts on the moon by 2024. Jeff Bezos' aerospace company said Tuesday it will collaborate with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Draper to create a Human Landing System in support of the Artemis program.

NASA has awarded 14 companies contracts worth approximately $43.2M combined to develop technologies for the space agency’s lunar and Mars exploration programs.

Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has said ULA proposed the Vulcan Centaur rocket system as part of its bid for the second phase of the U.S. Air Force's Launch Service Procurement program.

The Department of Defense obligated more than $4B on “other transaction” agreements in the first seven months of fiscal year 2019 and could record $7B or more in OTA obligations by the end of FY 2019, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday.

A new PwC report says the U.S. aerospace and defense industry recorded $244B in 2018 sales and was the A&D exports leader last year with $132B in revenue.