Tom Zara serves as global practice lead of corporate citizenship at Interbrand from January 1993 to present, with responsibility in creating and managing brand value. Zara is also the chairman of the Interbrand Inspired Foundation and the Interbrand’s global energy practice lead. He has helped the company build a roster of clients over the past 14 […] More

Riverside Research landed a prime contract to build the prototype for the Space System Command's Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing for Space Domain Awareness program. The nonprofit organization will be supported by CMSOC Corp., space-to-cloud data analytics firm Spire Global and system developer SciTec, according to DEEP-SDA's managing entity, the National Technology Security Accelerator.

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NASA has awarded contracts to Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global Subsidiary to perform 12-month Phase A studies on sounders for microwave-based applications in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Near-Earth Orbit Network program. More

NASA has awarded contracts to Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global Subsidiary to perform 12-month Phase A studies on sounders for microwave-based applications in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Near-Earth Orbit Network program. More

Audrey Allison, vice president for global spectrum management at Boeing, has been appointed to chair the Satellite Industry Association's board of directors. Ross Vincenti, associate general counsel at Intelsat, will support Allison as SIA's vice chair while Spire Global General Counsel Ananda Martin will manage the trade association's financial assets as treasurer, SIA said Tuesday.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commercial Data Program seeks to determine the availability of new vendors that can address the requirements under the Radio Occultation Data Buy II multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and has issued a request for information for the effort. Capable vendors would be added to the RODB-2 IDIQ pool and would […] More

NASA has awarded 15 companies spots on a five-year, $45 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in support of the Flight Opportunities and Small Spacecraft Technology programs. Winning contractors will be tasked to provide flight services and carry out the integration of payloads like science instruments and technology demonstrations onto a variety of platforms, including suborbital rockets, balloons and satellites, NASA said Monday.

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NASA has selected seven vendors that will compete for task orders under the expanded Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program procurement effort. The vendors were chosen based on the technical acceptability of their proposals and the reasonableness of their proposed contract prices relative to their commercial pricing, Kevin Murphy, the chief science data officer at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement issued Sept. 18.

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has selected three teams as winners of the demonstration phase of a prize competition seeking to develop technologies for the collection of geomagnetic data to update the World Magnetic Model. Iota Technology, the University of Colorado Boulder and a Spire Global-SBQuantum partnership secured millions in funding to further develop their magnetometer […] More

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started soliciting information from potential sources as part of the on-ramping process for the second iteration of the Radio Occultation Data Buy contract. Responses to the request for information are due Oct. 31. More

NASA has awarded contracts to four companies to perform 12-month Phase A studies on sounders for microwave-based applications in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Near-Earth Orbit Network program. The NEON program is a collaborative mission of NOAA and NASA and covers next-generation microwave sounders in low-Earth orbit that provide data on the […] More

NASA has deployed a set of four small satellites to low Earth orbit aboard Rocket Lab‘s Electron launch vehicle to test autonomous spacecraft swarm technologies in space. The 6U-sized CubeSats lifted off from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand and will demonstrate their ability to conduct maneuver planning, communications networking, relative navigation and autonomous positioning […] More