Some industry executives have said that NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program has provided companies an opportunity to advance their technology platforms and form partnerships with additional firms, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “Going back to the moon with commercial technology opens the floodgates,” said Grant Anderson, president, CEO and co-founder of Paragon Space Development, which teams […] More

NASA has chosen 10 companies to build platforms designed to gather, process and utilize space-based resources for lunar and Mars missions. The agency said Friday the companies will receive contracts worth approximately $10 million combined to perform work across three tracks as part of Appendix D of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 program. […] More

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for follow-on production of laser-guided training rounds. The company said Tuesday the award exercises the first option of its 2017 contract to provide Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds for the service branch’s Paveway II weapons exercises. The new award extends work for the […] More

Dynetics and its industry partners have cleared a preliminary design review of a Universal Stage Adapter that will work to support cargo transportation aboard NASA‘s Space Launch System rocket. The USA will be used to carry cargo during the first crewed flight of SLS and the Orion spacecraft, dubbed Exploration Mission-2, which is scheduled for launch by […] More

Lockheed Martin has signed a five-year deal to produce up to 3,000 Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds for NATO member countries per year. The company said Tuesday it will deliver the ELGTRs through 2021 under the follow-on agreement with the NATO Support and Procurement Agency. Jason Golden, ELGTR program manager at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control […] More

McKesson has introduced an electronic health record platform that works to help pharmacies, laboratories and operating rooms facilitate workflow management. The Paragon 14.0 EHR system from McKesson Enterprise Information Solutions has a computerized physician order entry tool and can be integrated with the company’s OneContent enterprise resource planning system designed to facilitate storage and retrieval […] More

Wyle Laboratories has been awarded a potential five-year, $270 million contract to provide research, development and project management services at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. The company said Thursday that it will support the facility’s spaceflight technology projects as well as programs in aeronautics, virtual environment and astrobiology. Wyle’s partners include ASRC Federal Space, […] More