Tag Archives: NASA

Houston-based autonomous technology developer Intuitive Machines has won a $47M contract build a drilling platform with a mass spectrometer for deployment on NASA's lunar water ice search mission.

Departments and agencies across the federal government have pushed to increase opportunities for small businesses. Especially after the COVID-19, various Offices of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), such as the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and the General Services Administration (GSA), have educated business owners on new resources and contracts. 

NASA has awarded 14 companies contracts worth approximately $372.2M combined to develop technologies for the agency’s lunar and Mars exploration programs. The proposals were selected under the fifth solicitation for the Tipping Point program and address three topic areas: lunar surface, cryogenic fluid management and closed-loop descent and landing capability.

GovConWire Events will host the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Virtual Forum featuring keynote speaker Brian Barnes, Associate Administrator of the Office of Small Business Utilization with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), on October 20th. To register for the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum, as well as view future events, visit GovConWire Events.

Momentus, a Santa Clara, California-based provider of in-space transportation and infrastructure services, has agreed to merge with Stable Road Acquisition (Nasdaq: SRAC) and will go public once the transaction is completed.

In Aug. 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced that the federal government exceeded its small business federal contracting goal. The federal government has awarded $132.9 billion in federal contracts to small businesses, increasing $12 billion from fiscal year 2019.  By law, 23 percent of government contracts must go to small businesses.

Dwight Deneal, director in the Office of Small Business Programs at the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), will serve as a panelist during GovConWire’s Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum on Oct. 20th. To register for the Winning Business and FY21 Opportunities Forum, as well as view future events, visit GovConWire Events. 

Ball Aerospace President Rob Strain will serve as a subcommittee member on the Defense Innovation Board (DIB) Space Advisory Committee (SAC), the company announced Monday. "This advisory panel will be critical in shaping the nation's path forward in space exploration, technology development and strategy at a time when the space domain is evolving quickly and in unforeseen ways," said Strain.

AECOM's (NYSE: ACM) technical services division, Infrastructure Solution Services and Jones Edmunds & Associates have secured positions on a five-year, $150M NASA contract to design and engineer infrastructure, facilities and equipment for the space agency.

NASA has issued a solicitation for a potential 10-year contract for communications and information technology products and services in support of the agency’s office of the chief information officer.