Wyle Laboratories has won a five-year, $41.8 million contract to help the U.S. Navy prevent and mitigate corrosion in the military branch’s naval aviation weapons throughout the systems’ sustainment life cycle. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Wyle will provide engineering support, proficiency training and technical guidance and advice on complex technical problems under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Wyle will perform […] More

Lockheed Martin and Wyle Laboratories have submitted research proposals for a new program that seeks to examine potential health issues that astronauts may encounter during deep-space missions. The companies’ submissions are among 24 research projects that will receive $12.9 million in total funds from NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, NSBRI said Thursday. […] More

Wyle Laboratories has been awarded a potential five-year, $270 million contract to provide research, development and project management services at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. The company said Thursday that it will support the facility’s spaceflight technology projects as well as programs in aeronautics, virtual environment and astrobiology. Wyle’s partners include ASRC Federal Space, […] More

Stuart Bradie, president and CEO of KBR, said the company's leadership team pursued a strategy five years ago to expand its government services market presence.

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NASA has selected eight research projects that aim to address challenges to commercial supersonic travel such as sonic booms and emissions from supersonic aircraft. The research initiatives will involve academic institutions and companies and will get funding worth more than $2.3 million under the agency’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project, the space agency said Wednesday. Kenneth Plotkin […] More

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely considered the world’s top premier space agency. With a budget of approximately $24 billion, a 5.3% increase from the previous fiscal year, and a workforce of 18,000 and its contractors, it programs and operates a worldwide network of research laboratories and facilities. Among the numerous projects […] More