With the increase of space exploration and defense, space research and technology continues to expand. Spanning across weapons, military and aerospace, space agencies such as NASA and the U.S. Space Force, have worked to develop innovative solutions to support critical space and defense missions. Gen. John Raymond, chief of space …
Read More »LinQuest Secures $200M Space Operations Command Support IDIQ
LinQuest will advise and assist the U.S. Space Force’s Space Operations Command under a potential nine-year, $200 million contract. The Department of Defense said Tuesday SpOC’s space acquisition directorate at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado received one offer for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive acquisition process. The Space …
Read More »Space Force Initiates On-Ramp Process for Orbital Launch Services
The U.S. Space Force has reopened a solicitation for the existing Orbital Services Program-4 contract vehicle in a move to increase the number of vendors that can help the branch deploy satellites to orbit within one to two years.
Read More »Report: Lockheed to Build Additional GPS III Follow-On Satellites Under $511M Contract Option
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) secured a $511M contract option to produce the 13th and 14th spacecraft for the GPS III Follow-On communication satellite program managed by the Space and Missile Systems Center, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
Read More »Gen. John Raymond: Space Force’s Acquisitions Command to Include Offices for Legacy, Nontraditional Contracting
Gen. John Raymond, chief of space operations of the U.S. Space Force and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, has said the service branch plans to include nontraditional and legacy procurement offices in its planned acquisitions command, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.
Read More »ARA Subsidiary Lands Space Force Satcom Support Contract; Logen Thiran Quoted
An Antenna Research Associates subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $33M contract from the U.S. Space Force to support a one-way wideband service for military communications. AQYR Technologies, which ARA acquired in July, will supply products and services to the Global Broadcast Service under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the company said.
Read More »Lockheed Awarded $85M to Continue Logistics Support for US Missile Warning Satellite
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) space business an $85M contract modification to extend logistics support for sensor-equipped satellites built to detect missile launches worldwide.
Read More »L3Harris to Update GEODSS Sensors Under Potential $119M Space Force Contract
The U.S. Space Force has awarded L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) a $119.2M contract modification to support modernization of the Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance system used to monitor geostationary communication satellites and other manmade objects in orbit.
Read More »Maria Demaree: Lockheed Demos Phased Array Tech for Space Force
TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 21, 2020 — Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) helped demonstrate a phased array antenna system during a transmit test for the U.S. Space Force's Multi-Band, Multi-Mission program, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 2.
Read More »Space Force Selects Lockheed for Satellite Missile Warning Tech Project; Maria Demaree Quoted
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a $51.2M contract from the U.S. Space Force to build, test and integrate a missile warning technology into the government's planned common ground command-and-control infrastructure for multiple satellite missions. The company said Wednesday it will develop mission software to support the transition of Geosynchronous Non-Integrated Tactical Warning and Attack Assessment operations to the Enterprise Ground Services system.
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