A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) spacecraft launched aboard NASA’s Space Launch System rocket early Wednesday in the start of the agency’s program to land humans again on the lunar surface. The uncrewed Orion separated from the SLS upper stage at a speed of 22,600 mph two hours after liftoff at the Kennedy Space Center in...
SpaceX has received a potential $1.15 billion contract modification from NASA to continue development work on its Starship human landing system and provide a second manned demonstration landing on the moon as part of the agency’s Artemis program. NASA said Tuesday the Option B modification was awarded under the Next Space Technologies for Explorat...
The financial ecosystem of the government contracting landscape is constantly evolving and changing to address emerging mission needs, support new requirements and propel the nation forward in today’s era of global competition. Having been in GovCon finance for over two decades, Chris Cage is both uniquely familiar with and well-positio...
NASA has launched an open and full competition for a potential nine-year, $1.93 billion follow-on contract to provide spaceflight mission support services to Johnson Space Center’s Flight Operations Directorate. A notice posted Wednesday on SAM.gov says the next iteration of NASA’s Integrated Mission Operations Contract will include prep...
NASA has kicked off a full and open competition for a potential eight-year, $400 million contract for functional activity support to the agency’s Shared Services Center. A selected vendor will assist NSSC in various areas such as intelligent automation, business services, procurement, financial management and human resources, according to a so...
Leaders from disparate parts of the U.S. government have encouraged members of the government contracting industry who may be concerned about secure ideas and blueprints being leaked or compromised during the acquisition process to enter the exchange as early as possible. This would mean getting on the ground floor so as to prevent risking their...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has booked a $1.99 billion order from NASA to manufacture Orion spacecraft for an additional three human space exploration missions under the Artemis program. The space agency placed the order under the $4.6 billion Orion Production and Operations Contract to procure vehicles for Artemis VI through VIII missions, Lockheed...
NASA has awarded contracts to SpaceLink and the U.S. arm of Kongsberg Satellite Services to conduct studies aimed at exploring industry capabilities to provide commercial direct-to-Earth and lunar space relay communications and navigation services in support of Artemis lunar exploration missions. The space agency said Wednesday it awarded SpaceLink ...
NASA has issued a presolicitation notice on a potential five-year, $375 million contract vehicle that will consolidate procurement efforts for environmental restoration and compliance services across the space agency. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers technical consultation, contamination detection, sampling and remediation...
Three companies have won spots on a potential three-year, $149 million contract to provide helium products to various NASA facilities. Air Products and Chemicals, Messer and Linde will supply 87.7 million standard cubic feet of gaseous helium and 1.4 million liters of liquid helium in support of the International Space Station program, the Artemis l...
