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SpaceX is modifying the Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A to launch crews of the Dragon 2 spacecraft, NASA Spaceflight reported Thursday. The company had signed a 20-year agreement with NASA and Space Florida, the state’s economic development agency, to lease the pad to launch Falcon 9 rockets and the Falcon Heavy. The Falcon 9 rockets will lift the Dragon 2 […] More

A Northrop Grumman repair station in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has received the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Aviation Maintenance Technician Diamond Award of Excellence in recognition of the company’s maintenance training and safety operations at the station. In addition to the Diamond Award, individual AMT awards were also given to 36 employees at the FAA-certified repair station, Northrop said Thursday. “Our customers […] More

CACI International has received a five-year, $48 million task order from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering and technical support services to a Naval Surface Warfare Center division that manages the service branch’s ordnance materials. The company said Tuesday it will help NSWC’s Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division to analyze, test, evaluate and manage logistics […] More

The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals for the development of conceptual designs based on requirements for the service branch’s future fleet of unmanned aircraft systems. Proposals for the Phase II Conceptual Design and Technology Assessment of the Next Generation UAS Technology Demonstration will aid the creation of a procurement program for the […] More

Knight Point Systems has been included in The Washington Post’s “Top Workplaces 2018” list for businesses and institutions in Washington, D.C. Energage conducted a third-party survey of employees on workplace culture elements such as alignment, connection and execution for the selection of the 150 honorees, Knight Point Systems said Monday. Bob Eisiminger, CEO of Knight […] More

SOS International has won a potential $78 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide technical support to U.S. Army Europe’s intelligence directorate. The company said Monday it will help the service branch analyze intelligence data, provide security support and manage information systems across USAREUR’s area of responsibility. Five bids were submitted to the Army 409th Combat Support Battalion […] More

Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, top acquisition official at the U.S. Air Force, has said the service will call off the remaining flights in its light-attack experiment following the death of a naval pilot in an aircraft crash on June 22, Defense News reported Tuesday. The accident involved the A-29 Super Tucano aircraft from the Sierra Nevada–Embraer team. […] More

Lockheed Martin has acknowledged 19 small businesses’ support for products and services of the company’s missiles and fire control unit in 2017. The suppliers were recognized for factors such as the delivery schedule and prices of parts, products and services, business process, values alignment and resolutions generation, Lockheed said Monday. Brian Kubik, global supply chain […] More

Caddell Construction has started to build a facility for the Energy Department‘s National Nuclear Security Administration in Albuquerque, N.M., through a potential $140 million contract from the Army Corps of Engineers. NNSA said Monday it broke ground on the agency’s Albuquerque Complex Project that will consolidate 25 buildings into a three-story, 333,000-square-foot facility. The facility is being built within Kirtland […] More

A NASA spacecraft designed to gather information about the sun is scheduled to take off no earlier than Aug. 4 aboard the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will determine how heat and energy move through the sun’s atmosphere by flying directly […] More

Engineering Services Network has received a potential five-year, $69.6 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center to provide technical, engineering and logistics support for weapon systems programs of the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. The company said Monday it will help test, engineer and conduct post-event analysis of the Aegis Combat System and the Ballistic Missile Defense […] More