Space Systems Command has issued five launch service task orders to United Launch Alliance and another three to SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract that the U.S. Space Force awarded in August 2020. ULA, a joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), will use its Vulcan Centaur...
A.I. Solutions has secured a potential seven-year, $217 million contract from the U.S. Space Force for research and development services in support of the Space Systems Command’s Innovation and Prototyping Delta. The Lanham, Maryland-based space software applications developer said it will work with its team consisting of Actalent, Boecore, Parson...
The U.S. Space Force has exercised contract options by selecting General Atomics and Orion Space Solutions to build and launch demonstration satellites as part of the Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System program. Orion Space Solutions will deploy a EO/IR Cubesat prototype in the fall of 2022 for a one-year demonstration, Space Systems Command sai...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will help the U.S. Space Force build and test a ground-based radar system for object detection and monitoring in deep space under a $341 million contract. The company said Wednesday it aims to complete the delivery of USSF’s first Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability to an Indo-Pacific location sometime in 2025. Fo...
Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command, spoke at length on the “booming” space economy, growing adversarial threats in the space domain and the nation’s most pressing space capability gaps in a closing keynote address during the Space Acquisition Forum, hosted by GovCon Wire Events on Wednesday...
As the U.S. Space Force enters its third year of operation, its leaders are prioritizing acquisition reform among the key transformational shifts the organization is expected to undergo in its pursuit of innovative technologies, advanced capabilities and more interoperable systems. Gen. Nina Armagno, director of staff for the Space Force, cited ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a 10-year, $329.3 million contract to help the U.S. Space Force engineer operational Global Positioning System Block IIF satellites. The company will perform engineering work to support on-orbit operations of the constellation used to transmit navigation data to military and civilian users worldwide, the Department of D...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has won a potential nine-year, $225.5 million contract to perform mission assurance support work for a U.S. Space Force program that provides full launch service capability to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. ASRC Federal Space & Defense will help the military branch engineer, integrate, verify and...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) will continue to provide a data management and decision support platform to Space Systems Command under a $43 million contract extension. The company said Thursday its Warp Core technology supports situational awareness and decision-making efforts at U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Northern Comm...
Sev1Tech has won a $47.5 million contract to develop a data transport-as-a-service platform for the U.S. Space Force. The Woodbridge, Virginia-based information technology company will aim to build and demonstrate the DTaaS prototype for the branch’s mission partners as part of the meshONE-Terrestrial program, the Space Systems Command said Mo...
