The U.S. Army has awarded Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) a potential two-year, $185 million single-award, cost-plus fixed-fee task order to support the Decision Support Division for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) throughout space, space control, high altitude, air and missile defense and cyberspace operations.

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Ball Aerospace, which partnered with Booz Allen Hamilton, has been awarded a contract by the Space Rapid Capabilities Office (SpRCO) to serve as the prime system integrator for the SpRCO Ground Command, Control and Communications (GC3) system, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. GC3 will support larger tactical command and control enterprise for the U.S. Space Force.

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Leidos’ Dynetics subsidiary has started developing a spacecraft called Autonomous Logistics Platform for All-Moon Cargo Access under a potential $253M contract with NASA to develop human landing systems for the agency’s lunar mission by 2024, CNBC reported Wednesday.

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Maxar Technologies President and CEO Dan Jablonsky, JKH Consulting CEO Jeffrey Harris and former VT Group CEO Terry Ryan have joined the board of directors at the National Intelligence University Foundation.

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Space engineering startup Orbit Fab has received a $250K grant from the National Science Foundation to demonstrate a docking system for refueling satellites in space, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

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Maxar Technologies announced on Thursday that Chris Shank has joined the company as the vice president of National Security Space, effective Monday.

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Boeing's philanthropic arm has donated $1M to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation to support an educational fund aimed at involving more women and minority students in science and engineering learning.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Richard White, president of SSL Government Systems, will be inducted into the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his efforts to innovate spacecraft technology and revolutionize humanity’s exploration of space. This marks his first Wash100 honor.

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Harris has pledged to support science, technology, engineering and math education through grant funds in a move to inspire future space innovators. The company said Thursday that, for the third consecutive year, it will back the Space Foundation’s Space in the Community program that seeks to inform students, teachers, parents and community members about space and […] More

Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has told a Senate subcommittee that planned exploration missions to Mars demand a “space industrial base of enormous breadth and depth.” Bruno said in a testimony published Wednesday that ULA has formed strategic partnerships with Aerojet Rocketdyne, L3 Technologies, Spincraft and other companies to supply key components for […] More

The SpaceNet team has received the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s Industry Achievement Award in recognition of its efforts to adopt GEOINT technologies and services. Maxar Technologies’ Radiant Solutions business teamed up with CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA to launch the SpaceNet open innovation project in August 2016, the companies said Tuesday. USGIF presented the award to […] More

A Lockheed Martin-led industry team has modernized a global network of systems that serves as the foundation of U.S.  ballistic missile defense. Lockheed said Tuesday it worked with Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon to update the Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications system, which is installed at various locations worldwide. The C2BMC network is designed […] More