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  • NASA Solicits Tech Proposals From Academia to Support Human Exploration Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Solicits Tech Proposals From Academia to Support Human Exploration Plans

    NASA‘s space technology mission directorate seeks early-stage technology proposals from academic institutions that can support the agency’s human exploration and solar system research goals in the long term. The space agency said Wednesday the Early Stage Innovations program will fund research projects in specific areas of interest to the country’s space program including advanced coating technology, cross-cutting […] More

  • NASA Seeks R&D Proposals for Future Robotic Planetary Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks R&D Proposals for Future Robotic Planetary Mission

    NASA has begun to solicit proposals for a robotic planetary mission that the space agency aims to launch by the mid-2020s. The agency said Friday the future program will serve as the fourth mission under NASA’s New Frontiers portfolio that includes the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt; the Juno mission to Jupiter; and the […] More

  • LMI's Norm O'Meara Coordinates Research Team on Air Traffic Control Staffing, Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI’s Norm O’Meara Coordinates Research Team on Air Traffic Control Staffing, Operations

    Norm O’Meara, a senior fellow at consulting firm LMI, helped the National Research Council carry out its efforts to assess current U.S. air traffic control staffing and operating practices. LMI said Tuesday that O’Meara served as staff coordinator for the 12-person team that conducted air traffic control research at 315 facilities nationwide, as mandated by Congress. Part of the study focused […] More