When the Office of Commercial Space Transportation was established at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 1984, it took the agency five years to commission its first mission. […]

NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin a new $2.27 billion contract to develop and build the next generation of weather satellite constellation – dubbed Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) – for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). […]

NASA has awarded CACI International a new contract worth up to $2 billion to help the space agency maintain and improve its IT services. […]

NASA’s Information Technology Procurement Office (ITPO) is seeking proposals in response to its 6th Generation of Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurements Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts (SEWP VI GWAC), which the agency said will “provide the federal government with an all-encompassing one-stop acquisition vehicle for Information Technology Product and Service Solutions.” […]

NASA’s Chief Data Officer (CDO) David Salvagnini will now also serve as the space agency’s first Chief AI Officer (CAIO), NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday. […]

The failure of Congress to approve a timely budget for fiscal year (FY) 2024 – and the impact of further budget restrictions expected for FY2025 – has forced NASA to make some tough choices including letting go some of its valuable human talent, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told lawmakers on April 30.  […]

NASA’s spacecraft development programs lack mandatory cybersecurity controls for acquisition policies and standards, placing the technology at risk of cyberattacks, the Federal government’s top watchdog said this week. […]

NASA’s interstellar spacecraft, Voyager 1, is coming back online, the space agency announced on April 22. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced two new investments today totaling over $47 million that will help NASA and the Department of Labor (DoL) address security vulnerabilities and update legacy technology. […]

NASA has pioneered many supercomputing technologies, but a new agency watchdog report reveals that the agency is in need of a “renewed commitment” to supercomputing in order to successfully launch future missions. […]

A top NASA official on Feb. 29 used a catastrophic visual to capture the challenge of securing both operational technology (OT) devices and IT in the push for zero trust. […]

As government officials are whipping up their digital transformation recipes, some Federal technology experts – or should we say chefs – shared their secret ingredients at the Digital Transformation Summit hosted by ACT-IAC and Carahsoft on Feb. 22. […]

Federal agencies last week released another series of equity action plans – featuring several notable technology-driven nuggets – that aim to continue advancing principles of the Biden-Harris administration’s equity agenda. […]

NASA’s Voyager 1 has been on a 46-year-long mission to explore interstellar space, but for the last year the probe has been experiencing several software and data glitches that could bring its mission to an end. […]

Despite NASA’s move earlier this month to push out the dates for its Artemis moon orbit and landing programs, the Artemis project continues to face problems including cost-saving challenges, witnesses said at a House Science, Space, and Technology Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee hearing today. […]

Both NASA and the Department of Commerce (DoC) reported use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) technology at double and triple the rate of the other 18 civilian CFO Act agencies who claimed to be using the emerging technology, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds. […]

To continue a 46-year-old mission, engineers on NASA’s Voyager team beamed up a software patch that would prevent the recurrence of a data glitch that arose last year, the space agency announced last week. […]

NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data in support of the space agency’s earth science research program, the agency announced last week. […]

Federal contractors and their employees are gaining extensive new whistleblower protections under a new regulation devised by the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council, the Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA. […]

Following an independent report urging NASA to take a more permanent role in researching unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) – or UFOs as they are more commonly referred to – the space agency recently appointed Mark McInerney as director of UAP research. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and NASA are looking to implement new revisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to standardize cybersecurity requirements for government contractors. […]

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Government Operations and the Federal Workforce Subcommittee held a hearing Thursday probing into Federal agency telework and productivity rates, and heard mostly upbeat stories from agency leaders on how pandemic-era telework policies benefited their operations. […]

NASA’s independent unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) study team released its long-anticipated first report on Thursday that urges the agency to take a more permanent role in the Federal government’s UAP research effort. […]

NASA has revealed the first look at the sixth version of its Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurements Government-Wide Acquisition Contracts (SEWP VI GWAC) IT contract. […]

NASA has hired David Salvagnini as its chief data officer (CDO), filling the role after Ron Thompson retired last fall. […]

NASA made strides during the first half of this year in key priority areas around digital transformation – including data consolidation and incorporating artificial intelligence tech into daily operations – and for the second half of the year is continuing the focus on digital transformation from a cultural perspective. […]

NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate’s (STMD) Associate Administrator James Reuter will be retiring from the agency at the end of June after 40 years of service, according to a May 9 agency announcement. […]

Lawmakers of the House Science Committee introduced two pieces of legislation last week that would codify the Department of Energy’s (DoE) existing research partnerships with NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to better address critical science and technology challenges. […]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded a new hybrid contract to Rothe Ares Joint Venture – worth upwards of $814 million – to manage digital communication services, as well as information technology services. […]

Republican members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology called upon NASA last week to answer some questions about what they see as the agency’s high telework rate. […]