NASA has awarded Banner Quality Management Inc. a potential five-year, $39.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide safety and mission assurance and engineering and technical services to the NASA Safety Center in Cleveland and NASA headquarters in Washington. The contract has a three-year base period of performance that begins on March 1 and two one-year option […]
The U.S. Space Force is asking the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a weather satellite to replace one stationed above the Indian Ocean for U.S. Central Command. The Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System-Geostationary 1 spacecraft was an NOAA asset called Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-13 until it was obtained by the U.S. Air Force, which later […]
Col. Roy Rockwell, the U.S. Space Force’s deputy chief of technology and innovation, estimates that the organization’s transition into a modern, fully digitized service would be completed within seven years. Speaking at the GovCon Wire DOD Digital Modernization Forum, he said digitization is crucial to the USSF, noting that the service’s operations rely on its […]
Raad Saleh, the head of the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service Ground Enterprise Study, said the current approach the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency takes to satellite-based data collection, processing and dissemination is unsustainable in the long run. Currently, NOAA establishes a unique ground system for each data collection mission it performs, an […]
NASA has selected experimental space technology concepts from 14 researchers to proceed with early-stage studies. The 14 programs will receive $175,000 grants under the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, a program that funds initial stage studies to see if proposed technologies could support future missions. Ten of the 14 organizations are first-time NIAC funding recipients. The […]
NASA has selected A.C. Charania as its new chief technologist, who will advise NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on technology policy and programs. He started serving NASA as part of the Office for Technology, Policy and Strategy on Jan. 3. As chief technologist, Charania will be responsible for aligning technology investments with mission requirements and overseeing […]
The U.S. Space Force has found that present weather data-as-a-service offerings from the private sector are insufficient to meet its needs. According to Lt. Col. Joseph Maguadog, the program manager for electro-optic / infrared weather systems at Space Systems Command, none of the responses obtained from a January 2022 request for information serve near-term needs. […]
NASA’s Information Technology Procurement Office plans to issue the final request for proposal for the NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services contract vehicle on Feb. 28, according to a presolicitation notice posted on SAM.gov. A request for comment NASA issued in early 2022 stated that NCAPS will merge the service requirements of 10 centers into […]
Aerospace company SpaceX plans to launch Falcon Heavy’s second national security mission for the U.S. Space Force on Jan. 12. According to the U.S. Space Systems Command, details of the USSF-67 mission will be released three days before launch. The launch follows USSF-44, SpaceX’s first national security launch that brought six payloads to geostationary Earth […]
Airbus Defence and Space has partnered with Voyager Space to support the development and operation of a NASA-funded commercial space station called Starlab, which is slated for launch in 2028 to ensure astronauts can continue conducting scientific investigations in low-Earth orbit following the retirement of the International Space Station in 2031. Under the agreement, Airbus […]
