NASA has issued a request for proposals for the second iteration of a potential nine-year, $478 million contract to provide research and engineering services for the International Space Station. Research, Engineering and Mission Integration Services 2 is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers spaceflight and g...
Jason Hopkins, a nearly two-decade space sector veteran, has been appointed to a vice president role at Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary offering lunar infrastructure services. He will oversee strategy and business development functions at Crescent Space, according to a LinkedIn post published Sunday. Lockheed launched Crescent in Marc...
NASA and Arlington, Virginia-based venture firm FedTech have partnered to launch a business incubation program that will team up license-ripe agency patents with entrepreneurs developing climate-related innovations. Startup Studio will spearhead a 16-week workshop in June for the chosen technology and enterprise participants, who are expected to pre...
The Department of Defense is working to adopt commercial technologies at a faster rate than ever before as the United Statesâ peer and near-peer competitors increase their own technological capabilities. This approach, known as a âfast followerâ strategy, was outlined in the 2022 National Defense Strategy, which called for the DOD t...
NASA is looking to consolidate contracts for acquiring cloud services from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google into a single reseller delivery order worth potentially $685.8 million. The consolidated order for agency-wide cloud services will be open to small business resellers capable of providing access to all three cloud service providers un...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $320 million contract to repair, operate, maintain and engineer facilities for NASA. The ROME indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded to ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics encompasses architect-engineering, construction, operations and maintenance and information resources...
NASA has issued a request for proposals for a potential five-year, $476 million program to acquire Earth observation data derived from constellations of small satellites operated by commercial entities. The space agency plans to conduct the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program as a full and open competition with an on-ramp mechanism to provi...
Twelve companies and two academic organizations received a total of $50 million in NASA’s latest round of funding for the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project. The awardees are members of NASA’s Advanced Composites Consortium, which will match the funds they received, the space agency said Friday. HiCAM’s production con...
NASA has released a request for proposals for a potential eight-year contract vehicle to provide enterprise information technology services for the space agencyâs centers and facilities. The proposed NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services contract will provide information security; information and data analytics; IT innovation across...
Firefly Aerospace has secured a $112 million contract to help NASA deploy one satellite and two payloads sometime in 2026 as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative. The Texas-based space transportation builder will be responsible for integrating and delivering payloads from Earth to the moon’s surface and orbit...
