Stinger Ghaffarian Secures Potential $1B NASA Contract for Mission Systems Operations Support

NASA is accepting industry proposals for the third iteration of its single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering safety and mission assurance engineering services. The SMAEC III procurement vehicle will support human spaceflight programs and projects at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, including the International Space Station, Orion exploration

NASA has asked industry to submit feedback on a draft performance work statement for the Consolidated Operations, Management, Engineering and Test contract that will replace the Kennedy Space Center’s Test and Operations Support Contract. The proposed COMET contract will include management services for KSC’s launch infrastructure and ground processing support for NASA programs, according to

SpaceX has won a potential $2.89 billion contract from NASA to continue development work on its human landing system that would transport two astronauts to the surface of the moon as part of the Artemis program. NASA said Saturday it awarded the firm-fixed-price contract under the Appendix H broad agency announcement of the Next Space