Kathy Warden, the chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said the company is leveraging digital manufacturing technologies for U.S. Air Force missile programs, Defense News reported Tuesday.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Thomas Kennedy, CEO and president of Raytheon, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting sector — for securing major contracts and helping to grow the company. This latest honor marks his third consecutive Wash100 Award win.

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Capella Space has appointed three new vice presidents to lead the company’s product engineering, go-to-market and business strategy and U.S. government services. Scott Soenen, a 15-year veteran in geospatial intelligence, joined the aerospace company as VP of product engineering, Capella said Thursday.
 

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A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has received a $23 million contract from NASA to develop a sensor technology for integration into a space observatory designed to examine the near-infrared sky. Teledyne Scientific & Imaging will supply 72 short wave infrared sensor chip assembly devices for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope mission and help the space agency conduct warn and […] More

A United Launch Alliance-built Delta II rocket lifted off Saturday with the first of four polar-orbiting environmental satellites developed through a collaborative program between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ULA said Saturday it launched the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:47 a.m. Pacific time. The satellite is designed to […] More

NASA rescheduled the launch of the first in a series of new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather satellites slated for polar orbit to Saturday from Tuesday. The space agency said Friday NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 will launch aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Delta II rocket from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at […] More

NASA has pushed back the target launch date for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s next weather satellite at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Joint Polar Satellite System-1 is now scheduled to lift off Nov. 14 at 4:47 a.m. Eastern time aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta II rocket, NASA said Thursday. JPSS-1 was originally slated to […] More

Roger Roberts, who led Boeing‘s space and intelligence systems business from 1997 to 2015, has joined Hera Systems as CEO of the Earth observation satellite company, Space News reported Friday. The report said Roberts succeeds Hera founder Bobby Machinski, who will transition to a new role as chief business development officer of the satellite startup. Roberts […] More

Phil Simonsen, a 28-year government national security space veteran, has been named senior executive for space and cyber programs at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International. He will oversee the company’s strategy to pursue new business opportunities with the National Reconnaissance Office and the Air Force Space Command, ACT I said. ACT I CEO Michael Niggel said Simonsen’s […] More

The U.S. Air Force plans to launch a space surveillance mission in 2021 to monitor the geosynchronous orbital belt that houses the service branch’s satellites, Space News reported Monday. Mike Gruss writes Congress appropriated $27 million for space situational awareness systems related activities such as the Space Based Space Surveillance to be launched in 2021. AnnMarie Annicelli, an Air Force […] More

NASA has performed a cryogenic test on the cameras and spectrographs of the James Webb Space Telescope in order to determine if the systems could withstand extremely cold temperatures inside a space environment simulator. The Webb telescope’s scientific instruments have been removed from a cylindrical  simulation chamber at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland following completion of […] More

NASA and industry partner Harris Corp. have completed their work to install the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.-built primary mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope ahead of its scheduled launch in 2018. The space agency said Thursday Harris installed Webb’s 18 mirrors with the final one in place Wednesday and will also lead integration work and tests […] More