Defense Budgets & Procurement

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's latest delivery order awards for the agency's Luno A and Luno B contracts, as part of NGA’s focus on unlocking the capacity and innovation of the commercial geospatial industry.  The selected vendors are: Luno A: BlackSky ...

Rocket Lab National Security LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB), successfully completed the firm's Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta (T2TL-Beta) program. The milestone follows Rocket Lab’s successful ...

Maxar Intelligence has been awarded Delivery Order 01 under the Luno A program by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). This award is focused on delivering commercial analytic services, specifically, automated AI/ML-generated object detections over many specified locations at once. Maxar ...

Astrion, through its legacy company Axient LLC, was selected earlier this month by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as one of 12 awardees on the Space Test Experiments (STEP) 2.0 program. STEP 2.0, a 10-year, multi-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) ...

The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Mission Manifest Office (MMO) has awarded a $25 million contract to Integrate. The award marks a significant shift in how the Department approaches program execution and reflects a growing movement inside SSC ...

Auria has received an $8.1 million award of the Joint Antenna Marketplace (JAM) prototype by U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC). Auria is one of two companies that will each develop and deploy a secure, cloud-based application to ...

The United States Space Force (USSF)’s Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded the Space Force Range Contract (SFRC) to Jacobs Technology, Inc. for a total ceiling value of $4 billion. This contract will transform the way operations, maintenance, sustainment, and systems ...

Infostellar Inc. has been selected by Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) for the "Satellite Frequency Analysis Technology Demonstration" project. This marks the first-ever contract signed under a newly established Japanese government procurement approach designed to incorporate startup technologies across all ...

NASA has selected Rocket Lab USA Inc. to launch the agency’s Aspera mission, a smallsat to study galaxy formation and evolution, providing new insights into how the universe works. The selection is part of NASA’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and ...

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) has received a new contract with the Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) to modernize the Netherlands’ Puma™ UAS fleet with expanded capabilities for enhanced situational awareness and operational effectiveness. Under the contract, the Dutch MoD is ...

Sierra Space has accomplished another successful demo of the company’s Resilient GPS (R-GPS) technology for the USSF via an SSC contract. In this third milestone, Sierra Space demonstrated an early integration of the R-GPS satellite technology through FlatSat flight software ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) for Phase 2 of the Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) program. This Phase 2 contract award was issued through the Space ...

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received multiple orders that are expected to total $214 million under Germany’s Digitalization – Land Based Operations (D-LBO) program. These orders include delivery of interoperable communication systems to enhance the operational capabilities of the German ...

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has been selected by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to deliver high-quality, commercial geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) data and analytics. Selected as a vendor for both the Luno A and Luno B commercial data indefinite delivery, ...

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) recently awarded the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) Enterprise Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Solution (EOS) contract to SciTec, Inc.—the $259 million award was made through a competitive Other Transaction Authority (OTA) prototype ...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rocket Propulsion Division at Edwards AFB, California, has awarded Ursa Major a $28,565,857 firm-fixed price contract for responsive space, hypersonic, and on-orbit propulsion. This new contract will follow-on work completed to mature advanced liquid ...

Terran Orbital Corporation has been selected by the U.S. Space Force as one of 12 companies awarded a position on the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 contract. This 10-year, $237 million, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, administered by Space ...

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program (STP) office is paving the way to procure full lifecycle solutions for Science & Technology experiments through a Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 ...

U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded a $2.9 million contract to Raft LLC for the development of an Application Programming Interface (API) Gateway through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction Authority (OTA). The API Gateway ...

BAE Systems has been selected by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to provide a new satellite command and control (C2) system for its Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution (FORGE) program. Infographic courtesy of Space Systems Command. FORGE C2 will ...