Development of a Sierra Nevada Corp. spacecraft reached another milestone when the company completed a key performance check under the Commercial Resupply Services Contract 2 with NASA.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has exercised one contract option for Sierra Technical Services to manufacture a second aerial target demonstrator for the Department of Defense.

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Motorola Solutions and Sierra Wireless have partnered to offer an LTE broadband communications service intended to help first responders communicate and share data inside vehicles while on the way to their missions.

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NASA has announced that a reusable, multi-mission orbital vehicle by Sierra Nevada Corp. is now ready for full-scale manufacturing and testing after passing an integration review validating its design performance. The company said Tuesday it has already started integrating critical parts of the Dream Chaser spacecraft, including major structural components, thermal protection system tiles and […] More

Aerojet Rocketdyne and Sierra Nevada Corp. have concluded a four-month study that focused on modifying advanced solar electric propulsion vehicle concepts for future human exploration missions and deep space habitation. Sacramento, Calif.-based Aerojet said Wednesday it supplemented Sierra Nevada’s Lunar Gateway concept with an SEP module for the Power and Propulsion Element study under NASA’s Next […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has received a five-year, $47M contract to provide sustainment support and other services for the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s Tactical Radio Application Extension and Android TRAX software. The company will help USSOCOM maintain, integrate, demonstrate and manage the performance of fielded systems, as well as train field service representatives under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

Israel Aerospace Industries and Sierra Nevada Corp. have partnered to jointly develop an unmanned aircraft system with vertical takeoff-and-landing features. The partnership seeks to offer a tactical VTOL UAS to the U.S. defense market as both companies have observed a demand for unmanned aerial platforms that can support military air operations, IAI said Tuesday. The joint […] More

S. Sita Sonty, a more than 15-year foreign service veteran and previously a senior adviser for legislative affairs and administration at the State Department, has been named vice president of international business at Sierra Nevada Corp. She will work at SNC’s Washington, D.C office and manage a product portfolio designed for the aerospace, defense and […] More

Sierra Technical Services has concluded the critical design review of an upcoming unmanned target aircraft. The company said Wednesday the 5th Generation Aerial Target is being designed for use in air-to-air and ground-to-air weapons evaluation, as well as in training for pilots and ground forces. The 5GAT generates propulsion through two afterburning jet engines housed in […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has received a one-year, $19.9 million contract modification to provide additional services for the U.S. Air Force’s aircraft precision strike package. The Air Force exercised an option under a previously awarded contract that covers PSP logistics support for the Lockheed Martin-built AC-130J and AC-130W platforms, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the latest award brings the contract’s […] More

The U.S. Air Force has announced plans to further test non-developmental aircraft offerings from Textron Aviation and the Sierra Nevada–Embraer team through the second phase of the Light Attack Experiment program. The service branch said Friday it will continue to experiment with Textron’s AT-6 Wolverine as well as Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona from May to […] More

Sierra Nevada Corp. has achieved a contractual milestone with NASA for the company-built Dream Chaser spacecraft after a test vehicle completed a free-flight test in November. SNC said Friday Dream Chaser cleared Milestone 4B under the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability contract, confirming that the spacecraft is designed to perform safe runway landings from space to Earth. NASA’s Commercial […] More