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  • NASA's SBIR-Funded Vanilla Aircraft & Black Swift Drones Now Operational - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s SBIR-Funded Vanilla Aircraft & Black Swift Drones Now Operational

    NASA has confirmed the operational status of two unmanned aircraft systems that Vanilla Aircraft and Black Swift Technologies separately developed through the space agency’s Small Business Innovative Research program. NASA said Tuesday Vanilla Aircraft’s VA001 and Black Swift’s S2 small UAS are both designed to support scientific investigations. VA001 works to operate in austere conditions with temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit, lift 35 […] More

  • Raytheon-Built Ground System for Joint Polar Satellite Program Becomes Operational - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Built Ground System for Joint Polar Satellite Program Becomes Operational

    Raytheon has powered up a new Common Ground System the company built to support an upcoming launch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System. Version 2 of JPSS CGS is designed to transmit observations from 11 future polar-orbiting satellites to NOAA’s National Weather Service agency at a rate 50 percent faster than that of the original […] More

  • KBR Business Segment to Provide Medical Support for ESA Astronauts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Business Segment to Provide Medical Support for ESA Astronauts

    KBR‘s global government services business will provide medical support to the European Space Agency office in charge of health certifications to clear astronauts for flight. KBRwyle will furnish services including flight medical operations, healthcare administration, biomedical engineering and sport science to the European Astronaut Center Space Medicine Office in Cologne, Germany, through a contract with Vitrociset […] More

  • Supermicro to Help Expand Computing & Data Analytics Capacity for NASA Climate Simulation Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Supermicro to Help Expand Computing & Data Analytics Capacity for NASA Climate Simulation Center

    NASA has selected Super Micro Computer to help expand the capacity of computing and data analytics systems at the space agency’s Center for Climate Simulation. Supermicro said Monday it will provide a company-built Rack Scale platform that will offer 1.56 petaflops of additional computing capacity to NCCS. NCCS is located within the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology […] More

  • Harris Develops Environmental Measurement Instrument for NOAA Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Develops Environmental Measurement Instrument for NOAA Weather Satellite

    Harris has produced an environmental measurement instrument that will launch aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 to support U.S. weather forecasting. The Cross-track Infrared Sounder will serve a component of NOAA’s polar weather satellite program and is designed to analyze and feed millions of atmospheric data points into weather forecast models. Harris said Monday. The company developed […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Launch 8th ISS Resupply Mission Nov. 11 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Launch 8th ISS Resupply Mission Nov. 11

    Orbital ATK has set a Nov. 11 launch date for the company’s eighth cargo resupply mission that will transport crew supplies and hardware to the International Space Station on behalf of NASA. The space agency said Tuesday Orbital ATK’s Cygnus spacecraft will launch aboard the company’s Antares rocket from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to deliver approximately […] More

  • NASA JPL Opens Solicitation for 'Europa' Lander Camera Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA JPL Opens Solicitation for ‘Europa’ Lander Camera Tech

    NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a request for proposals on the development of camera technology for a proposed lander mission on Jupiter’s moon Europa. A FedBizOpps solicitation notice posted Oct. 26 says the agency seeks a Europa lander descent camera that would comply with Planetary Protection requirements and work to capture images for localization and velocimetry throughout the […] More

  • NASA Continues Partnerships With 3 Firms to Develop Lunar Cargo Delivery Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Continues Partnerships With 3 Firms to Develop Lunar Cargo Delivery Tech

    NASA has extended its partnership agreements with Astrobotic Technology, Masten Space Systems and Moon Express to further develop technologies designed to transport payload cargo to the moon’s surface. The space agency said Tuesday it amended the original Space Act Agreements between NASA and its three industry partners to extend the performance for work by two years. All three companies have supported […] More

  • NASA Taps 5 Companies to Study Power & Propulsion Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps 5 Companies to Study Power & Propulsion Tech

    NASA has awarded five companies $2.4 million in combined funds to study power and propulsion technologies that can support the development of a solar electric propulsion platform for deep space missions. The studies will help NASA identify requirements and reduce risk for a 50 kilowatt-class SEP system that will support human missions into deep space, the agency said Thursday. […] More

  • NASA to Host Industry Day for UAS Integration in Natl Airspace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Host Industry Day for UAS Integration in Natl Airspace

    NASA plans to host an industry day on Nov. 30 in San Diego, California, to convene and collect input from commercial and academic organizations that support ongoing projects to integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system. The space agency said Thursday it aims to demonstrate the systems integration and operationalization of UAS in […] More

  • NASA, Boeing Partner to Conduct Flight Safety Research With Synthetic Vision Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Boeing Partner to Conduct Flight Safety Research With Synthetic Vision Tech

    Boeing and NASA have entered into a Space Act Agreement to study pilot awareness and response to unplanned situations as part of efforts to help improve aviation safety and flight training. The research effort will employ NASA’s synthetic vision technologies along with Boeing’s 787 simulators and , the agency said Wednesday. Kyle Ellis, NASA’s research technical lead, […] More

  • Report: NASA Eyes Transfer of IR Observatory Project to Private Organization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: NASA Eyes Transfer of IR Observatory Project to Private Organization

    NASA has posted a request for information on U.S.-based private organizations that can take over operations of the agency’s infrared observatory, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. The space agency aims to hand over operations of the Spitzer Space Telescope because agency funding for the spacecraft will end in 2019. NASA currently plans to operate Spitzer through March 2019 to carry […] More