A new McAleese & Associates report says NASA and Boeing (NYSE: BA) expect the next uncrewed flight test of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to occur in the first six months of 2022. Boeing and the space agency held a joint teleconference Tuesday to provide an update on Starliner and Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese...
The Department of Defense, NASA and the General Services Administration intend to propose a rule as a potential amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to mitigate the risk of climate change in federal agency procurements. The agencies are considering introducing the rule in accordance with an executive order released in May that seeks to co...
A Chenega Corp. subsidiary has won a pair of firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth $581.8 million combined to provide support services at multiple NASA-run facilities. Chantilly, Virginia-based Chenega Global Protection will perform work under the space agency’s $328.3 million fire services contract and $253...
NASA has awarded a pair of contracts worth $253.4 million combined to General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation subsidiary and MagniX USA to develop and demonstrate electrified propulsion systems intended for commercial aircraft. The two companies will participate in the Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration project within a five-year period, ...
Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has secured a $600 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop an engine system for spacecraft to be used in NASA’s lunar exploration program. The company will help NASA integrate the Orion Main Engine into the primary power and propulsion module of the exploratory vehicle to replace a re...
While the world continues to navigate the “new normal” brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, another inevitable environmental concern that can cause droughts, among other challenges, is emerging. But scientists say mitigation measures can still help reduce its severity and damages. Notwithstanding the future levels of greenhouse gas em...
NASA is inviting vendors to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for an eight-year, $480.15 million small business set-aside contracting vehicle for financial support services. The draft RFP notice, posted Friday on SAM.gov, says the agency plans to release by Nov. 24 the final solicitation document to identify a contractor that can supp...
NASA has awarded $146 million in contracts to five companies to develop lunar lander design concepts, perform risk reduction activities and offer feedback to inform requirements for a future solicitation on industry capabilities that could help facilitate regular manned missions to the moon under the space agency’s Artemis program. Blue Origin, Le...
NASA has awarded spots on a potential five-year, $300 million contract to nine companies to perform architectural and engineering work at the space agency’s facilities and infrastructure within the southeastern U.S. Contractors will support agency projects under the Architect-Engineer Services for the Design and Other Professional Services Nec...
SpaceX has secured a potential $152.5 million contract from NASA to launch the fourth and final spacecraft for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series, the space agency’s collaborative acquisition program with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NASA said Saturday it expects the company’s Falcon He...
