TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 3, 2018 ” General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business has completed the installation and initial checkout phase of NASA™s Space Network and Ground Segment Sustainment program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday it helped the space agency install equipment necessary to update it...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has purchased Columbia, Md.-based aerospace engineering and space situational awareness services provider Applied Defense Solutions for approximately $50 million in a move to build up its space mission capabilities. L3 said Monday it will operate the newly acquired firm as L3 ADS to provide space exploratio...
The California Institute of Technology has secured a potential 10-year, $30 billion contract to continue operations support at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech will help the space agency develop and sustain key JPL programs in the astrophysics, aeronautics, heliophysics, Earth and planetary sciences and space t...
Todd May, director of NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center, has been named vice president of space strategy for KBR‘s (NYSE: KBR) government services arm. He will formally join KBRwyle in July and will also lead the unit’s systems analysis and services division that serves federal civilian and defense custom...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 22, 2018 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has switched on two main systems of NASA™s James Webb Space Telescope in support of the test and integration phase of the program, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday its engineers used external power tools to generate compatible energy in order to simul...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 20, 2018 ” A subsidiary of ASRC Federal will work to help NASA assess new computing platforms and conduct simulation and modeling as well as data analysis and visualization under a potential $1.2 billion contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The contract tasks InuTeq to provide high-performance com...
Weekly Roundup June 11 – June 15, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes Executive Mosaic™s Weekly GovCon Round-Up: SAIC’s Q1 Earnings and Top 10 Stories Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO SAIC: Q1 Earnings and Other News Two weeks ago, this column provided an overview of May contract wins for the pl...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 15, 2018 ” Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) will serve as a strategic partner to Akima Support Operations under a potential $131.7 million NASA contract to help maintain facilities at Goddard Space Flight Center, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Jacobs said Wednesday it will support GSFC™s Facilities Op...
The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council has announced the election of Paul Strasser, executive vice president of information management solutions group at Data Systems Analysts, as executive vice chair of IAC, effective July 1. Strasser, who currently serves as vice chair for finance at IAC™s executive committee, ...
Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) will develop two more weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in addition to the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 spacecraft after NASA exercised options that would bring the total amount of the contract to approximately $460 million. The company said Friday it is currently building the JP...
