Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has been awarded a $960 million contract to provide hardware and software procurement services to the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center for the terminal segment of a joint service satellite communications system. The company will also conduct logistics and depot activation efforts for the Advanced Extremely High...
The U.S. Space Force has named ABL Space Systems, Astra Space and Relativity Space as the first on-ramp awardees on the Orbital Services Program-4 contract vehicle as part of efforts to expand the pool of vendors that could help launch payloads larger than 400 pounds to orbit within one to two years from task order...
Pamela Lincoln, a three-decade U.S. military veteran, has joined Systems Planning and Analysis to direct the company’s program development efforts for the Air Force and Space Force. The retired AF major general will lead the development of national security space offerings and explore space and air platforms for potential integration with SPA&...
Braxton Technologies, now part of Parsons (NYSE: PSN), has secured a $139.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Space Force to continue ground-based satellite systems support at the Space and Missiles Systems Center. The company is helping the service branch prototype, integrate and manage network, infrastructure, architecture and hardware s...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will continue to provide systems engineering and integration services in support of space launch operations under a potential $475.5 million contract with the U.S. Space Force. The company will support the National Security Space Launch program and provide launch service integration, fleet surveillance and certif...
The U.S. Space Force intends to release a request for proposals by June 30 to develop prototypes of deep space radar sensors that can monitor satellites and space debris in geostationary orbits, SpaceNews reported Sunday. The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Enterprise Consortium plans to select one or more vendors to build prototype conce...
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has issued requests for prototype proposals for upper-stage resiliency improvements, next-generation rocket engine testing and orbital transfer and maneuver capabilities, SpaceRef reported Tuesday. SMC’s Launch Enterprise will support the space technology projects through other transaction ...
Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business has received a potential $234 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to update Blocks 1 and 2 of the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System to facilitate the integration of GPS Block III Follow-on satellite capabilities. The Space and Missile Systems Center obligated $2...
The U.S. Space Force has selected Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) to design, develop and launch payloads meant to secure military satellite communications as part of the new phase of the Protected Tactical Satcom program, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The service expects the Northrop and Boeing payloads to launch in 2024 aboard a...
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...
