Investment company Renovus Capital Partners has acquired a majority interest in Tempus Nova, a technology services provider to the public and private sectors.

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Leidos plans to consolidate its two facilities in Monongalia County, W. Va., into a new technology center that will be established at Westridge business park, WV News reported Monday. The company is scheduled to open the Agile Center of Excellence within a year and expects to accommodate approximately 250 people there. Drew Formica, site manager at Leidos, […] More

The American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing has appointed Amar Nayegandhi, Dewberry’s vice president and director of remote sensing, as director of its lidar division. Dewberry said Wednesday that Nayegandhi has led lidar projects for federal clients and obtained extensive experience in coastal remote sensing, topography, and bathymetric lidar data acquisition and processing. Nayegandhi […] More

A Lockheed Martin-built weather satellite that launched in March is equipped with Northrop Grumman’s Scalable Space Inertial Reference Units that work to provide attitude control and sensor pointing capabilities for the spacecraft. Dean Ebert, vice president of navigation and positioning systems at Northrop’s mission systems business, said in a statement published Monday the Scalable SIRU is […] More

Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business has received a $59.2 million modification from NASA to address additional requirements under a previously awarded contract for weather satellite ground system support. NASA said Friday the modification increases the potential value of Raytheon’s Joint Polar Satellite System Common Ground System contract to $1.9 billion and covers a new  technical baseline for […] More

Raytheon has expressed interest to help the Defense Department meet its weather monitoring needs with its sensor system, SpaceNews reported Monday. Wallis Laughrey, vice president of Raytheon’s space systems segment, told the publication at the Space Symposium that the company is in talks with the U.S. Air Force and DoD about the capability of its […] More

Steve Ambrose, a former scientist at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has joined Woolpert as program director for the company’s government solutions business. He brings more than 40 years of Earth science, data engineering, climatology and geospatial experience to his new position, Woolpert said Tuesday. Jeff Lovin, senior vice president and director of government solutions […] More

NASA has announced the launch date of a second weather satellite in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series as March 1. GOES-S will lift off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s 41st Space Launch Complex in Florida aboard an Atlas V rocket during a two-hour window opening at 5:02 p.m. Eastern time, NASA said Wednesday. The  Lockheed […] More

Orbital ATK has wrapped up a critical design review of the second Joint Polar Satellite System. The company said Friday it partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA to carry out the review to assess whether the JPSS-2 spacecraft program meets schedule and system requirements. The CDR phase also sought to evaluate […] More

Raytheon provided a common ground system and a space sensor technology to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s next-generation polar satellite that NASA launched Saturday from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The company said Saturday its common ground system for the Joint Polar Satellite System and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor will function […] More

Raytheon has powered up a new Common Ground System the company built to support an upcoming launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System. Version 2 of JPSS CGS is designed to transmit observations from 11 future polar-orbiting satellites to NOAA’s National Weather Service agency at a rate 50 percent faster than that of the original […] More

“I don’t think of difficulties; I think of welcome challenges.” EM: Let’s start with your background and how you get to where you are today. Your title is Executive VP of Joint Unmanned Systems and Training Solutions for AECOM. Tim Saffold: I am pleased and feel privileged to be working on the AECOM team with the […] More