![ManTech gets $20 million contract extension for Space Force launch systems engineering]()
SMC awarded a six-month extension while it reviews bids for launch systems engineering and integration services.
![DoD increases progress payments to contractors to shore up cash-strapped suppliers]()
Pentagon spokesman: DoD is working to help increase cash flow to the defense industrial base.
![Op-ed | Small businesses, beware of DoD technical support contracts]()
Small businesses are the backbone of the defense industrial base. So why do government contracting methods sometimes harm, rather than help, small businesses?
![Air Force ‘hopeful’ Congress will support new strategy to phase out Russian rocket engines]()
If the House NDAA language ends up becoming law, it would set things back at least two years, said Claire Leon, director of the Launch Enterprise Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center, in Los Angeles, California.
![Army rolls out new plan to modernize communications networks and weapons]()
Frustration over lagging modernization has reached a tipping point in the U.S. Army as rising powers like Russia and China are arming their militaries with advanced weapons and electronic warfare systems.
![Aerojet Gets $18M To Advance Electric-propulsion Work]()
Aerojet Rocketdyne has received am $18 million NASA contract to continue work on an electric-propulsion system.
![Lockheed Gets Extension for ISS Logistics Support]()
NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a one-year contract extension valued at $23 million to continue supporting efforts to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
![GAO Denies Protest of TASC Geospatial Apps Contract]()
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest by Vencore Inc. of a contract awarded to TASC worth as much as $25 million to prescreen and negotiate apps for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
![Iridium Teams Up with Telematics Solutions Firm]()
Iridium Communications has signed a partnership agreement with telematics solutions provider Appareo Systems to provide machine-to-machine communications services globally via the Iridium satellite constellation.
![MDA To Supply Subsystem For Boeing-built Satellite]()
MDA Corp. won a contract worth $5.2 million to provide a communications antenna subsystem for an unspecified Boeing-built satellite.
NGA has awarded L-3 Communications a contract worth as much as $218 million to operate and sustain the agency’s communication infrastructure.
![SSL Takes Hispasat Contract Away from Orbital Sciences]()
Hispasat selects Space Systems/Loral to build the Amazonas 5 in a move that cancels the planned Amazonas 4B satellite that Orbital was expected to build.
![U.S. Air Force Extends Lockheed Contract on Milstar, DSCS]()
The Air Force said awarding the work to another company would result in at least $250 million of duplicate costs.
Wyle’s bioastronautics contract expired in April 2013, but dueling bid protests that began that spring have forced NASA to extend the deal through April 2015.
![NASA Contract Puts Orbital’s Pegasus XL Back on the Board]()
Orbital Sciences will launch a small NASA heliophysics mission aboard the venerable Pegasus XL air-launched rocket in 2017 under a $56.3 million contract award.
