Intuitive Machines has received a $77.5 million task order to help NASA send four payloads to the moon’s surface sometime in 2024 on an Artemis mission to study the lunar surface feature known as Reiner Gamma. NASA said Thursday that Intuitive Machines will be responsible for integrating, transporting and operating the hardware on a Nova-C...
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington will continue to provide science operational support for the Hubble Space Telescope through June 30, 2026 under a potential $215 million contract extension with NASA. NASA said Tuesday the latest award allows AURA to continue supporting the operations of the Space Telescope Scie...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has teamed up with four other companies to design and propose a lunar terrain vehicle for NASA’s Artemis moon exploration program. Northrop said Tuesday it will lead the industry team composed of AVL, Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Michelin to offer the space agency an LTV platform that will include avionics...
Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) has appointed four members to the company’s public sector advisory council to offer their insights into cybersecurity challenges that government and industrial organizations face. The company said Monday its new PSAC members are T.J. White, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral; Renee Wynn, former chief information o...
BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) has received a five-year blanket purchase agreement to provide high revisit satellite imaging data in support of NASA’s Earth observation research efforts. “Helping NASA-backed researchers broaden their understanding around critical changes in the Earth’s ecosystems, oceanography, geographic and polar sciences is vitally ...
NASA is looking to enlist additional companies to crowdsource ideas and approaches to advance the agency mission through an on-ramp process for the second iteration of the Open Innovation Services contract vehicle. A solicitation notice posted on SAM.gov says the space agency will accept new proposals for the potential $175 million NOIS2 program unt...
Lisa Starkweather, formerly the director of programs at Cyber Defense Technologies, has joined Virginia-based security consulting firm Avint as chief operating officer. She will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Avint’s business that aims to help federal customers secure cyber and physical systems, the company said Wednesday. Sta...
Halvik has secured a potential five-year, $148.8 million task order to support information technology and customer service operations for NASA’s governmentwide IT contract vehicle. The Vienna, Virginia-based company will help the agency manage the Solutions for Enterprise-wide Procurement network, NASA said Wednesday. Work is scheduled to begi...
NASA intends to solicit proposals for the third iteration of the Omnibus Multidiscipline Engineering Services contract that has been supporting the directorates within the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. According to a presolicitation notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov, the OMES III contract will provide the Engineering and Technology Dir...
NASA will resume contract work with SpaceX on the development of a human landing system that would bring two astronauts to the surface of the moon after the U.S. Court of Federal Claims dismissed a bid protest by Blue Origin. The court’s decision upholds the space agency’s move to award a potential $2.89 billion contract...
