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Dan Jablonsky: Maxar Sees Growth in Government Work
Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar Technologies, said he is optimistic that the company will return to growth and “excited about the trend lines†he is seeing in its satellite business driven by an increase in government work in the U.S. and overseas, SpaceNews reported Sunday.
NRO Plans to Buy Satellite Imagery From Multiple Vendors; Maxar’s Tony Frazier Quoted
The National Reconnaissance Office plans to begin in 2020 a new procurement process to buy commercial satellite imagery from several companies, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
NRO Launches Competitive R&D Funding Opportunity for Industry, Academia
The National Reconaissance Office has opened a formal solicitation for a nine-month, $500K research and development program that seeks "disruptive" concepts and technology platforms.
Betty Sapp, Director of National Reconnaissance Office, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Managing NRO Operations, Acquisition Efforts & Advancing Space Intelligence Data
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Betty Sapp, director of the National Reconnaissance Office, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for managing NRO’s operations and advancing space intelligence data. The latest honor represents the fourth Wash100 Award for Sapp in five years.
Jill Singer, AT&T National Security VP, Chosen to 2019 Wash100 for Efforts to Improve Capabilities With AI, Big Data
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Jill Singer, vice president of national security at AT&T’s global public sector solutions unit, has been selected for the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her vision to improve the company’s position in artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning. This marks her fourth Wash100 win.
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ULA Sets New Target Launch Date for National Reconnaissance Office Payload
United Launch Alliance plans to launch no earlier than Sunday, Jan. 6, a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard its Delta IV Heavy rocket, Spaceflight Now reported Friday. The report said engineers have begun to address a small hydrogen leak in the engine section discovered during the Dec. 19 launch attempt. The NROL-71 was originally scheduled to lift […] More
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ULA Sets Dec. 18 as New Launch Date for NRO Mission
United Launch Alliance rescheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 18, the launch of a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket. The NROL-71 mission will still lift off from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as originally planned, the company said Thursday. ULA initially scheduled the launch for Dec. 7 but […] More
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ULA Delta IV Heavy Rocket to Launch NRO National Defense Mission Friday
United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch a new National Reconnaissance Office payload Friday at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket. The NROL-71 mission will take off at 11:19 p.m. Eastern time as part of the agency’s national defense efforts, ULA said Wednesday. Delta IV Heavy is designed to carry more than 14,000 pounds of […] More
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Dan Jablonsky: DigitalGlobe-NRO Imagery Contract Extension Reflects Gov’t Customer Continuity
Dan Jablonsky, president of DigitalGlobe, has said the National Reconnaissance Office‘s move to extend a satellite imagery services contract with the company can serve as evidence that the government favors “continuity” amid an influx of entrants into the industry, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies business, received a potential $900M contract extension to provide commercial imagery to […] More
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Equipment Supports NRO Natl Defense Payload Launch
Aerojet Rocketdyne supplied equipment to support the deployment of a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite which flew onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket. The NROL-47 national defense mission satellite was launched with the help of an Aerojet Rocketdyne-developed RS-68A booster engine, RL10B-2 upper stage engine, 14 helium pressurization tanks and a dozen MR-106H 9 lbf […] More
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Orbital ATK Backs ULA’s NRO Mission With Rocket Motors, Composite Structures
Orbital ATK supplied composite structures, motors and other components for a Delta IV rocket that United Launch Alliance launched Friday to bring a National Reconnaissance Office payload into space. Orbital ATK said Friday the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s Delta IV rocket that took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission has […] More