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  • NASA Taps Abacus Technology to Provide Research, Analysis, Comm's Support Services for Marshall Space Flight Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Abacus Technology to Provide Research, Analysis, Comm’s Support Services for Marshall Space Flight Center

    Abacus Technology has received a potential 66-month, $48.2 million blanket purchase agreement to support the research, analysis and communications requirements of NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center. The Strategic Analysis and Communications Support Services II contract includes a one-year base performance period, four one-year options and a six-month option, the space agency said Friday. The company […] More

  • NASA Selects L&M Technologies for $61M Marshall Center Logistics Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Selects L&M Technologies for $61M Marshall Center Logistics Support IDIQ

    L&M Technologies will provide logistics services to NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center under a potential five-year, $60.5 million contract. NASA said Thursday work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes equipment, moves and furniture, mail, shipping and receiving, motor pool and transportation and flight hardware support. The company will also help MSFC manage material, property and warehouse Contract work will […] More

  • NASA Extends Teledyne's ISS Ground Operations Center Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Extends Teledyne’s ISS Ground Operations Center Support Contract

    A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has received a contract extension to provide ground operations support for the International Space Station through NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center and Johnson Space Center. The company said Tuesday Teledyne Brown Engineering will continue to help the agency prepare missions, train crew and flight controllers crew and manage spaceflight operations requirements under the extended Mission Operations […] More

  • NASA Center to Host Opening Event of High School Robotic Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Center to Host Opening Event of High School Robotic Competition

    NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will host the kickoff event of a national robotic competition for students in grades 9 through 12 on Saturday. The opening ceremony for this year’s FIRST Robotics, managed by the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology organization, will take place at the Davidson Center for […] More

  • CH2M, Alcyon Sign Mentor-Protege Agreement Under NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M, Alcyon Sign Mentor-Protege Agreement Under NASA

    Representatives from companies CH2M and Alcyon have signed a mentor-protege agreement under NASA Tuesday at the Marshall Space Flight Center. The agreement represents the 16th mentorship deal between a prime contractor of MSFC and a protege, which was also the first certified small disadvantaged business to enter the program, NASA posted Thursday. CH2M will provide developmental, marketing, strategic […] More

  • NASA-Brazilian Research Team Plans CubeSat Mission to Study Ionosphere Phenomena - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA-Brazilian Research Team Plans CubeSat Mission to Study Ionosphere Phenomena

    NASA will collaborate with a team of space researchers in Brazil to conduct a joint CubeSat mission as part of efforts to study phenomena that occur within the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task mission aims to observe the equatorial plasma bubbles and scintillation in the ionosphere that affect radio communications, satellite technologies […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL to Carry Out Design Phase of NASA's Asteroid Deflection Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL to Carry Out Design Phase of NASA’s Asteroid Deflection Mission

    NASA has given Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory the go-ahead to start the preliminary design phase of an asteroid deflection mission. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test seeks to shift the orbit of an asteroid within the Didymos asteroid binary system to demonstrate a technique that could protect Earth from a potential asteroid strike, APL said Friday. “DART […] More

  • Security Walls Awarded NASA Facility Protective Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Security Walls Awarded NASA Facility Protective Services Contract

    Security Walls has been awarded a potential five-year, $45.3 million contract to provide a range of protective services at two NASA facilities located in Alabama and Louisiana. NASA said Wednesday the company will help the agency secure physical infrastructure, technology and personnel as well as support emergency management, training requirements and range operations at the Marshall Space Flight Center and […] More

  • Accura-Rosser JV Gets NASA Contract for Marshall Center Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accura-Rosser JV Gets NASA Contract for Marshall Center Support Services

    A joint venture of Accura and Rosser has been awarded a potential five-year, $39.8 million contract to perform engineering design, inspection, master planning and surveillance services at NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center. Accura Rosser 8(a) JV will perform contract work to help address the center’s project, institutional and program objectives for the space agency, resident organizations and […] More

  • 99 Student Teams to Take Part in NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    99 Student Teams to Take Part in NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge

    Ninety-nine student teams from high schools and universities in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Brazil and other countries will participate in NASA’s three-day Human Exploration Rover Challenge that will kick off March 30 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Alabama. NASA said Wednesday the Marshall Space Flight Center will host the competition that will require […] More

  • CSSA Gets NASA’s 2016 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSSA Gets NASA’s 2016 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award

    Cepeda Systems & Software Analysis has received the 2016 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year award from NASA in recognition of its engineering support to the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The company said Wednesday the agency-level recognition came after it secured the MSFC award early this year. CSSA also oversees NASA’s flight and ground […] More

  • NASA to Deploy Ozone Measurement Payload to ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Deploy Ozone Measurement Payload to ISS

    NASA plans to launch an instrument designed to measure Earth’s ozone as part of SpaceX‘s 10th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The agency said Saturday the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on ISS  payload will launch with the SpaceX-built Dragon spacecraft this month from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SAGE III will be attached to […] More