Boeing will donate $30 million to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for renovation work and new exhibits that are scheduled to finish in 2016. The company intends for the donation to support education work, new exhibits and the first renovation of the museum’s “Milestones of Flight” hall, Boeing announced Thursday. Boeing has donated more than […] More

NASA has chosen Ball Aerospace to initiate the first phase of a mission aimed at expanding the scientific community’s knowledge about the sun's middle coronal structure. Under the contract, the company said Monday it will conduct a conceptual study for the space agency's proposed Extreme ultraviolet Coronal Mass Ejection and Coronal Connectivity Observatory mission.

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A space-based instrument Ball Aerospace manufactured for NASA has begun transmitting images meant to support air pollution research in North America. Ball said Thursday the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution system recently completed its first solar calibration scan mission, capturing major air pollutants like ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and formaldehyde. The Maxar Technologies-built commercial Intelsat IS-40e […] More

Intelsat commenced the first phase of in-orbit testing of TEMPO, a space-based, ultraviolet-visible spectrometer designed to monitor air pollution in North America. The first-of-its-kind instrument is in its final geostationary orbit destination and has been sending periodic data such as emissions from rush-hour traffic and forest fires, the company said Wednesday. TEMPO was launched in […] More

Lance Roncalli, a technology sector veteran with more than 25 years of leadership experience, has joined Leidos as vice president of business development for its security enterprise solutions operation. Roncalli will oversee strategic opportunities, pursuits and capture efforts meant to drive Leidos’ security product portfolio, the company said Thursday. He previously held the chief revenue officer role […] More

Chris Stone has been elevated to the dual role of vice president and chief supply chain officer at Lockheed Martin, according to his LinkedIn post published Friday. Prior to his promotion, he worked as the company’s vice president of supply chain for enterprise operations. He joined Lockheed in January 2021 after acting as VP of supply chain […] More

Maxar Technologies‘ Space Program Delivery team has integrated NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution payload with its host spacecraft to monitor and track air pollution in North America. The TEMPO payload, built by Ball Aerospace and in collaboration with NASA and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, is hosted on the Intelsat 40e geostationary communications satellite and will […] More

Leidos has received two delivery orders worth $202 million combined to supply non-intrusive inspection systems to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection for deployment to the agency’s passenger vehicle checkpoint sites. CBP placed the orders through a pair of multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to procure Low-Energy Portal and Multi-Energy Portal systems, the company said Thursday. Jim […] More

Northrop Grumman has worked with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Smithsonian Institution to transfer the operations control center of the orbiting Chandra space telescope to a facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, from its previous location near Harvard University's campus in Cambridge.

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Peter Warren Singer, strategist at the New America organization and author of "Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution," will serve as a keynote speaker at  Potomac Officers Club’s “AI Just Beyond Tomorrow” virtual event on Thursday, May 28th. 

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Phase2 has secured a position on the General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70 contract to offer services to public sector customers.

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Accenture announced on Thursday that Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, former NASA astronaut and former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has joined the Accenture Federal Services Board of Managers. In the role, Sullivan will provide strategic insight on Accenture Federal Services’ vision, innovation and growth journey. 

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