Blue Origin intends to continue flight tests for its New Shepard launch vehicle amid the coronavirus outbreak in an effort to meet its goals for suborbital spaceflight by the year’s end, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.

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Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith told CNBC in an interview published Tuesday about the company’s partnership with three other companies to build a landing system that will bring astronauts to the moon.

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Booz Allen Hamilton will provide consulting, engineering and technical support services for the U.S. Army after being chosen by the service as primary contractor for the Expedited Professional and Engineering Support Services blanket purchase agreement. The company said Thursday the Express BPA multiple award contracting vehicle calls for the provision of advisory services for the […] More

Peter Sacripanti, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, and former Salesforce Chief Financial Officer Graham Smith have joined the board of directors at Citrix. Citrix said Tuesday Sacripanti, chair of the executive committee of McDermott Will & Emery, will serve on the audit and finance committees of Citrix and Smith on the compensation committee. “Both are highly accomplished business […] More

Tony Moraco, chief executive of SAIC, is moving to establish a more direct tie between him and members of his management team in 2014. Chief Information Officer Bob Fecteau and Chief Communications Officer Lucy Fitch will both report directly to Moraco beginning sometime after Feb. 1, the contractor said, as will Jennifer Smith, senior vice […] More

By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International Throughout my career in both government and industry, I have been a strong proponent of the role of small business to be able to create innovative solutions for national security and homeland security. The success of the science and technology innovation supply chain requires public/private cooperation and […] More

John Hyten, a retired U.S. Air Force general who served as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has joined Blue Origin as strategic adviser to senior leadership and executive director for its Club for the Future foundation. The aerospace company said Wednesday Hyten, a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, will be responsible for driving […] More

Blue Origin has inaugurated a new factory in Huntsville, Ala., that will work to accommodate high-rate production efforts for two rocket engines.

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NASA has selected Blue Origin to modernize the space agency’s historic vertical firing test platform for the company to perform assessments of the BE-3U and BE-4 rocket engines.

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An Airbus Defense and Space subsidiary has completed the installation of its VESTA 911 call handling platform into the emergency communications system of Manatee County, Florida. Airbus DS Communications said Wednesday it worked to update Manatee County’s four public safety answering points with 45 call taking positions that receive approximately 250,000 calls a year. VESTA is designed to support four separate locations with two backroom […] More

The enactment of zero trust cybersecurity policy — wherein, essentially, users are required to provide credentials at every new access point in a digital architecture — is an immense undertaking that comes with its share of long-term benefits. (The concept was ordered by the Biden Administration via Executive Order in May 2021 and its rollout for […] More

Michael Lempke, president of the nuclear and environmental group at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ technical solutions division, has been named chairman of the Energy Facility Contractors Group, ExchangeMonitor reported Wednesday. He will lead the organization that coordinates with the Department of Energy to incorporate operational and business practices across DOE facilities.

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