Space Nation and NASA have entered into a Space Act Agreement to administer a training program that will allow participants to experience space training through a smartphone application. The Astronaut Experience Program will feature an educational documentary and make use of multiple media platforms such as active experience training and app games in which users can compete for a chance […] More

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Maria Demaree, vice president and general manager of national security space at Lockheed Martin's space business, as an inductee into the 2024 edition of the Wash100 Award for driving space-focused innovation and advancing the development of integrated platforms in support of national security missions.

Vote for Demaree as your favorite GovCon leader as part of the 2024 Wash100 popular vote competition! Voting closes on April 30, so visit Wash100.com to cast your ten votes today.

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Voyager Space and a Palantir Technologies business will explore the integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning and edge processing technologies to further develop national security capabilities in the commercial space sector under a memorandum of understanding.

Register here to attend the Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 21 and hear federal leaders and industry experts discuss the latest developments in the field.

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Mitre is working on multiple lines of research to enhance information sharing to support the Federal Aviation Administration's vision to enable an Info-Centric National Airspace System in 2035. Mitre, which operates the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development for the FAA, believes that advancements in commercial technologies and infrastructure that enable real-time information exchange, such as sensors, wireless networks and communications satellites, can revolutionize the future of the NAS, the not-for-profit research organization said Monday.

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Full-spectrum joint domain command and control services provider MAG Aerospace has entered into a partnership with Idaho National Laboratory to secure cyber physical systems like critical infrastructure from cyber threats, with the ultimate aim of enhancing national security. MAG Aerospace said on Wednesday that, under the partnership, it will use INL's Consequence-driven Cyber-informed Engineering assessment methodology to identify hardened operational technology-dependent assets and detect vulnerabilities.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started soliciting information from potential industry sources that could provide a user interface for the Traffic Coordination System for Space. Responses are due Oct. 31, according to a request for information posted Monday on SAM.gov.

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SRI International will further develop its space object tracking technology under the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Space Debris Identification and Tracking program. The nonprofit research organization is working on the Space Object Tracking and Evaluation via Radar Integration and Analysis project in collaboration with Leidos and SCOUT Space through IARPA's SINTRA program.

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Krupal Patel, former global account manager at Amazon Web Services, has joined Maxar Technologies to serve as senior director of national security space business development, according to his LinkedIn post. He brings to the role knowledge in strategy, business development and satellite systems engineering. At AWS, he was a sales leader who handled its business […] More

Krupal Patel, former global account manager at Amazon Web Services, has joined Maxar Technologies to serve as senior director of national security space business development. Patel's career also includes time serving at NetApp, Ball Aerospace and Boeing's satellite systems-focused business arm. More

Three National Science Foundation-backed projects will be part of a Northrop Grumman cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program. The ISS National Laboratory said Tuesday the projects that will fly on Cygnus spacecraft for the Northrop CRS 19 mission are led by Stanford University, Emory University and the […] More

Aerospace and defense leaders are indispensable in bolstering national security and safeguarding the well-being of United States citizens. They are at the forefront of supplying cutting-edge equipment, advanced weaponry, and sophisticated systems to maintain aerial supremacy and assert dominance in the face of imminent threats. Their unwavering commitment to innovation and expertise empowers the nation’s […] More

Space Systems Command has launched another National Reconnaissance Office’s national security mission to geosynchronous earth orbit onboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The NROL-68 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday, carrying a classified spy satellite payload for the U.S. government, SSC said. “The […] More