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 proc...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a five-year, $275 million contract to help NASA update the hardware and software of an Earth data management system. The company will engineer on-premise and cloud-based applications for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System as part of the EOSDIS Evolution and Development-3 contract, the...
Wen Masters, previously deputy director for research at Georgia Tech Research Institute, has been appointed as Mitre‘s vice president for cyber technologies, effective May 17. She will oversee Mitre’s cybersecurity strategy across a portfolio of programs including those that tackle national security and economics, the organization said T...
Jennifer Felix, president and chief executive officer of ASRC Federal, was presented her first Wash100 Award on Wednesday by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award, during a visit to ASRC Federal Holding Corp. “Jennifer Felix walked in the door as a COO and has become CEO of one of...
Bernard Harris Jr., the first African-American astronaut to complete a spacewalk 26 years ago, has been appointed to the board of directors of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX). He concurrently serves as CEO and managing partner of Vesalius Ventures, an investment company focused on the health care technology market, and leads a nonprofit educationa...
NASA is seeking additional developers of satellite bus core systems and support services to participate in the second on-ramp solicitation process under the multiple-award $6 billion Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV program. The agency indicated its intent to expand the Rapid IV Catalog in a request for proposals notice posted Thursday on SAM .gov. B...
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...
NASA’s Launch Services Program has initiated an on-ramp process that resulted in the addition of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket to the NASA Launch Services II indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. “ULA is honored that NASA LSP has added our Vulcan Centaur rocket to the catalogue of launch vehicles available to suppo...
Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), has been named a 2021 Wash100 Award winner for his leadership in the COVID-19 pandemic response and relief as well as the advancement of U.S. space exploration and development of IT technology capabilities. For Scolese, this marks the second consecutive year that he’s recei...
Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to launch an independent commercial company from its space business area to capitalize on potential opportunities presented by the opening of low Earth orbit to commercial space efforts, CNBC reported Wednesday. Sierra Space will be an SNC subsidiary and will focus on developing commercial space station and reusable vehicle...
