Jacobs has conducted engineering, manufacturing and testing efforts in support of the assemblies equipped on a new NASA telescope for collecting X-rays of neutron stars, stellar and supermassive black holes and other objects. The company said Monday it supplied components of the Mirror Module Assemblies that the space agency’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer uses to […] More

3DX Industries, a 3D metal printing company, has established a new office that will focus on bidding on contracts from the U.S. military as well as local, state and federal organizations. The new government contracts division will offer 3DX’s additive and subtractive capabilities to potential customers from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine […] More

PredaSar has received a contract to help Space Systems Command demonstrate data transmission between commercial and military satellites in low-Earth orbit. The goal of the project is to deploy a hybrid space architecture designed to support interoperability between the company’s small satellite technology and the Blackjack constellation, SSC’s joint effort with the Air Force Research […] More

Parsons‘ government services business will prototype a ground operations center for a satellite system under a $10.8 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA issued the phase three contract for the Blackjack Prototype Ground Operations Center as part of the Small Business Innovation Research program, the Department of Defense said Friday. The […] More

NASA launched a Ball Aerospace-built space observatory Thursday for the agency’s joint mission with its Italian counterpart to study X-rays from supermassive black holes, supernova remnants and other high-energy objects in the universe. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft lifted Thursday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and will use three telescopes with sensitive detectors to […] More

Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure global at Microsoft, said the company has launched new Azure Space offerings and formed partnerships with Airbus, ST Engineering iDirect, Blackshark.ai, ESRI and Orbital Insight to deliver more cloud and space capabilities to customers worldwide. Keane wrote in a blog post published Thursday that one of new capabilities […] More

Rocket propulsion company Ursa Major Technologies has raised $85 million in a round of Series C funding led by accounts and funds managed by BlackRock and will use the capital to ramp up the development and production of liquid rocket engines for hypersonic and launch applications. Ursa Major said Tuesday it intends to manufacture one […] More

Rocket Lab plans to retrieve a rocket booster mid-air using a helicopter during a mission scheduled to take place in the first half of 2022. The company said Tuesday it will deploy a helicopter to attempt to catch a falling booster in support of its goal to market Electron as a reusable small rocket. “A […] More

Healthcare is one of the industries that commands the largest portion of the federal government’s budget. It encompasses many institutions, such as public health agencies, laboratories, departments, and health insurance programs, including CHIP, Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA Marketplaces. To ensure the effective delivery of healthcare services to Americans, numerous federal government agencies award healthcare […] More

Australia-based Fleet Space Technologies has raised $26.4 million in a round of Series B financing and will use the funds to support growth initiatives and provide satellite connectivity for internet of things-based devices. The space company said Tuesday Artesian Venture Partners, Blackbird Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Grok, Alumni Ventures, South Australian Venture Capital Fund, Hostplus and […] More

Caesar Nieves, senior vice president of Cyber & Intelligence for Jacobs, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz for the publication’s latest Executive Spotlight interview detailing the company’s recent acquisition of BlackLynx and the impact it’s having on Jacobs’ national security efforts. In addition, Nieves also discussed Jacobs’ continued expansion into the intelligence community, the challenges of addressing the latest cyber hygiene […] More

Mike Kushin, executive vice president and general manager of Information Warfare – High Consequence Missions for Parsons, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz to discuss his move to the company and the establishment of its Information Warfare sector in the publication’s latest Executive Spotlight interview. In addition, Kushin also shared his thoughts with ExecutiveBiz on the transition from Blackhorse to […] More