Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will lead two separate teams under a pair of NASA contracts to develop concepts for a passenger jet capable of reaching Mach 2 to Mach 4 speeds. Each industry team will create a nonproprietary aircraft design and a high-speed air travel roadmap for the next phase of the Advanced Air Vehicles...
NASA has started soliciting proposals for a potential 10-year, follow-on contract covering research operations, maintenance and engineering support services to Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The space agency intends to conduct a full-and-open competition for the Center Maintenance, Operations and Engineering II contract in support of ...
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 Faci...
NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) to deploy a pair of small satellites into low Earth orbit to help scientists understand how warming climate affects ice shelves in the Arctic and Antarctica. The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment mission is targeted for a 2024 launch to gather data on heat emissions...
Peraton will support the maintenance and operation of communications systems for NASAâs Deep Space Network Program under a $513.5 million subcontract from agency-sponsored Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The company said Thursday it will maintain four antenna stations equipped with parabolic dish antennas and ultra-sensitive receivers at the Goldstone ...
Jacobs Solutions (NYSE: J) reported fiscal year 2023 third-quarter revenue of $4.2 billion, a 9.4 percent increase over the same period a year ago and maintained its full-year adjusted earnings outlook of $7.25 per share to $7.45 per share. The Dallas-based company’s total backlog as of June 30 stood at $28.9 billion, up 2.9 percent...
Cyber intelligence company Sentar has acquired Huntsville, Alabama-headquartered Waterfront Technical Services for an undisclosed sum to expand into the civil space sector. Allan McCaleb, president of Waterfront, will join Sentar as director of civil space programs and oversee the combined organization’s business growth efforts in the sector, ...
Eleven companies have been named in the latest batch of NASA’s Tipping Point partners that will develop technologies that could support lunar surface and space exploration missions. The agency said Tuesday it expects to contribute a total of $150 million to fund the projects and each award recipient will shoulder at least 10 to 25...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) will provide flight crew operations, analyst training, mission preparation and execution support to the International Space Station and future human spaceflight programs under NASA’s potential nine-year, $1.93 billion Integrated Mission Operations Contract III. Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Barrios Technology will serve as major subc...
NASA has launched a full and open competition for interested vendors to design and build a single-channel, near-infrared optical detector for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations satellite system. The space agency intends to award a 15-year cost-plus-award-fee contract for the development of...
