Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX on Track to Crewed Flights
Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer at SpaceX and a former Wash100 winner, told reporters the company wants to send astronauts to space by May, CNBC reported Tuesday.
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Lockheed Tests Overall Performance of Army Precision Strike Missile
Lockheed Martin has demonstrated a long-range, precision-strike test missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in support of the U.S. Army.
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Everlaw Gets FedRAMP Moderate Authorization for Cloud-Based Litigation Platform
Everlaw has received authority to operate at moderate impact level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based litigation and ediscovery platform.
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Tory Bruno: ULA Continues to Back Upcoming Space Missions Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance and a previous Wash100 award winner, said ULA and other launch services providers have business continuity plans in place to deal with pandemics, fires, hurricanes and other emergencies and added that the company continues to support forthcoming missions amid the coronavirus outbreak, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
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Stringent Classification Could Impede Space Procurement Reforms; Inmarsat Government’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Quoted
Policy experts said at the Satellite 2020 conference that strict classification of space systems could hamper reforms to the military space acquisition process, Air Force Magazine reported Monday.
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L3Harris Announces Reflector Antenna Tech for Smallsat Units; Ed Zoiss Quoted
L3Harris Technologies has unveiled a small satellite reflector antenna designed to mitigate weight, time and size requirements for smallsat production efforts.
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Rocket Lab to Launch NASA, NRO, Australian Payloads; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab will help two U.S. federal agencies and an Australian academia-based team launch and deploy small satellite payloads.
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DLH Cloud Product Now Ready for FedRAMP
DLH Holdings’ health information technology platform has attained readiness certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.
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HUD Seeks Info on Potential Sources of Cloud-Based Property Tracking System
The Department of Housing and Urban Development wants information on potential vendors that can replace a legacy system used to track and manage HUD homes and support the department’s financial and accounting processes. A sources-sought notice published Friday says HUD plans to award a potential five-year contract by the end of calendar year 2020 to procure a cloud-based software platform that would replace the Single Family Acquired Asset Management System.
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