Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a $48.3 million contract to provide two more sensors-equipped aircraft that would help U.S. Customs and Border Protection detect and track border security threats. The pair of Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft will support CBP's surveillance across border areas that pose environmental challenges, such as austere weather and terrain obstacles, SNC said Tuesday.
Read More »Dynetics-Led Team Submits ‘Option A’ Human Lunar Lander Proposal to NASA
An industry team led by Leidos' Dynetics business has submitted its proposal for a human landing system that will support NASA's Artemis mission to the moon slated for 2024.
Read More »Air Force Research Satellite Conducts VLF Transmission in Space
The Demonstration and Science Experiments satellite of the Air Force Research Laboratory performed the first space-to-space very low frequency transmission within three months of its launch during a coordinated experiment with the Japanese Space Agency's Arase spacecraft. The DSX satellite launched in June 2019 to study the interactions of space plasma, radiation belts and radio waves in near-Earth space.
Read More »Sierra Nevada Corp. to Help Air National Guard Adopt Link 16 Comms for EC-130J Aircraft
The Air National Guard has tapped Sierra Nevada Corp. to equip the security force's EC-130J Commando Solo aircraft with new Link 16 communications. The tactical datalink update would allow the military reserve's aircraft to communicate on the Link-16 network that provides situational awareness across the U.S. Air Force fleet and other users, SNC said Monday.
Read More »Sierra Nevada Receives Additional CBP Enforcement Aircraft Order
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has ordered two more Sierra Nevada Corp. multimission planes that are based on the Beechcraft King Air 350 twin-turboprop aircraft and equipped with passive and active sensors.
Read More »Sierra Nevada Works on New System to Help Pilots Fly in Limited Visibility
Sierra Nevada Corp. has been selected to advance to the third phase of a U.S. Army competition to develop a system that can help pilots operate in fog, dirt and other limited visibility conditions, National Defense reported Friday.
Read More »Three Companies Awarded DIU Unmanned Orbital Outpost Study Contracts
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded contracts to three companies to study concepts for small, unmanned space stations in low-Earth orbit, SpaceNews reported Sunday.
Read More »Sierra Nevada Gets DIU Contract to Design Autonomous Space Outpost
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a contract to create an unmanned orbital outpost prototype based on the company's space transport vehicle design. SNC said Tuesday it will repurpose the 16-foot Shooting Star hardware that was originally designed to function as a Dream Chaser spaceplane attachment under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services 2 program.
Read More »Sierra Nevada to Build Pilot Situational Awareness Tech for Army, SOCOM
Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to provide a multisensor platform for U.S. Army and Special Operations Command pilots to gain situational awareness when flying aircraft in a limited visibility environment.
Read More »Sierra Nevada to Manufacture Third A-29 Aircraft for USAF
Sierra Nevada Corp. is slated to deliver an A-29 Super Tucano aircraft to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command in support of combat aviation adviser missions.
Read More »Sierra Nevada Prepares to Install Lockheed-Made Wings on New Spaceplane
Sierra Nevada Corp. has received and unpacked the Lockheed Martin-built wing units of a spaceplane designed to resupply the International Space Station for NASA.
Read More »USSOCOM Looks to Acquire Light-Attack Aircraft for Special Ops Missions
The U.S. Special Operations Command has launched a new program aimed at providing manned light-attack aircraft to special operations forces, FlightGlobal magazine reported Thursday.
Read More »Dynetics-Led Team Submits Proposal for NASA Lunar Lander Program
A Dynetics-led team is bidding to secure an award under NASA's specific effort to land astronauts on the lunar surface, Space News reported Friday.
Read More »Sierra Nevada, NASA Form Partnership for Space Mission Tech Projects
Sierra Nevada Corp. has teamed up with NASA's Langley Research Center to carry out two entry, descent and landing projects, both of which are intended to enable the safe performance of space missions, over the next two years.
Read More »NASA Vet Janet Kavandi Named Sierra Nevada Space Systems Business SVP
Janet Kavandi, a 25-year veteran of NASA and former director of the agency's Glenn Research Center, has been appointed senior vice president for the space systems business area at Sierra Nevada Corp. She will oversee the area's space technologies and spacecraft, space exploration systems and propulsion and environmental systems units, SNC said Monday.
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