Tag Archives: Space and Missile Systems Center

The U.S. Air Force has awarded a potential nine-year, $986M contract to eight companies for space launch mission support to the Department of Defense and other government agencies as part of Orbital Services Program-4.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will continue to provide logistics support for the U.S. Air Force's space-based infrared system under a one-year, $163.9M contract modification.

United Launch Alliance has received a $98.5M contract to complete three Atlas V rocket launches for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office. The company will continue and complete Atlas V launch activities that began under a previous contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

Hughes Network Systems will develop and demonstrate a technology intended to manage satellite communications under a $2.2M contract from the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center. The company said Monday it will create the Enterprise Management and Control system prototype with the firm's Flexible Modem Interface to support interoperability between satcom networks.

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center is seeking interested parties who can manage a consortium to support the service branch’s plans to recompete an other transaction agreement for space-related technology prototyping efforts.

A U.S. Air Force program office has kicked off the solicitation phase for a follow-on program seeking rocket platforms designed to carry more than 400 pounds of payload.

Rick Ambrose, head of Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) space business and a 2019 Wash100 winner, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Monday that the Air Force’s missile warning satellite initiative - Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program – will offer more flexibility and built-in resiliency capabilities.

Los Angeles-based space systems technology provider LinQuest has won a potential seven-year, $562.3M contract from the U.S. Air Force for systems engineering, integration and test support services.

The U.S. Air Force plans to award Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory a $93M contract extension to help the military branch engineer space-based systems. Under the sole-source contract, APL will continue to provide research and development services in areas such as space science and engineering, strategic systems, theater air defense and information technology, USAF said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice.

A Braxton Technologies-led industry team has won a potential $100M contract to develop a prototype of infrastructure designed to help the U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center manage satellite operations on the ground.