Bigelow Aerospace has teamed with United Launch Alliance to launch an outfitted expandable module in 2022 to serve as a lunar depot or habitat. ULA said Tuesday it will launch B330 onboard a Vulcan 562 configuration rocket to low Earth orbit, where Bigelow Aerospace will outfit the module as well as assess its capacities as a habitat. The […] More

NASA has announced plans to issue a potential five-year contract for the continued use of a Bigelow Aerospace-built expandable activity module currently attached to the International Space Station. The space agency said Tuesday it seeks to utilize the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module as an expandable habitat and long-term in-orbit storage unit as part of efforts to maximize […] More

NASA will test a Bigelow Aerospace-developed human-rated expandable habitat to collect data for deep space habitat designs after the structure is installed on the International Space Station. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module will be attached to the space station’s Tranquility node using the Canadarm2 robotic arm on April 16 during an estimated four-hour attachment period, NASA said […] More

United Launch Alliance and Bigelow Aerospace have formed a partnership to build and launch habitable volumes into low Earth orbit in an effort to support research efforts in space. Bigelow Aerospace plans to integrate the habitable volumes with the B330 expandable module and launch the module onboard the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture ULA“™s Atlas V […] More

Barbie Bigelow is chief information officer at TASC, a systems engineering and advisory services provider to the intelligence community, Defense Department and civilian agencies. In her position, she leads the company’s information strategy, collaboration efforts, enterprise systems, technology and security. Prior to joining TASC, Bigelow was CIO for Lockheed Martin’s electronic systems business. She was responsible […] More

TASC Chief Information Officer Barbie Bigelow is leading her company“™s IT endeavors into the future, through cloud and beyond. GovConExec recently spoke with Bigelow about where she“™s been and where she and TASC are going. GovCon Executive: What brought you to TASC? Barbie Bigelow: The challenge of standing up a brand new enterprise platform drew […] More

In the beginning, there was TASC.  And then there was the new TASC. That journey began last December, when the advanced engineering and advisory services firm decoupled from defense giant, Northrop Grumman on the heels of organizational conflict of interest requirements outlined in the Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009. Ever since, the newly […] More

Barbie Bigelow is chief information officer for TASC, Inc. As such, she is responsible for the leading the company’s information strategy including collaboration, enterprise systems, technology and security. She oversees the IT direction, market discriminators and operations including creating TASC’s infrastructure, business systems and collaboration suite. Prior to joining TASC, she was the electronic systems […] More

Mettle Ops has received a three-year, $20M other transaction agreement to help the U.S. Army meet survivability and equipment requirements of ground vehicles.

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Several companies have expressed interest in NASA“™s new commercialization plan for the International Space Station, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

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Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, has told a Senate subcommittee that planned exploration missions to Mars demand a “space industrial base of enormous breadth and depth.“ Bruno said in a testimony published Wednesday that ULA has formed strategic partnerships with Aerojet Rocketdyne, L3 Technologies, Spincraft and other companies to supply key components for […] More

Six companies aim to build ground prototypes of deep space habitat concepts through NASA‘s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 program. NASA said Friday prototypes from Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada Corp. and NanoRacks will help the agency assess configurations of proposed habitats and support tests that will validate standards and common interfaces currently under consideration. All […] More