The total JETS II cost-plus award fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a potential base value of approximately $1.8 billion. The contract contains an option to convert to a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, and the ability to issue firm-fixed-price task orders. The cont...
Jacobs provides engineering and science services and solutions for NASA Johnson Space Center’s (JSC’s) mission on the JSC Engineering, Technology and Science (JETS) contract to lead human space exploration by providing services for major programs such
Through the JSC Engineering, Technology & Science (JETS) II contract with NASA, Milliken is partnering with Jacobs, a global professional services firm, to develop a next-to-skin textile for astronauts’ clothing during the lunar landing mission. NASA, in conjunction with U.S. industry ...
Wilmore — a Tennessee native and Navy test pilot — has spent more than 8,000 hours of his life aboard tactical jets, according to NASA. Before he was selected for NASA’s astronaut corps in 2000, Wilmore was on exchange as flight test instructor at the Air Force Test Pilot School in...
NASA has awarded a contract to Navarro Research and Engineering, Inc., of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for continued environmental compliance and operation services at
Northrop Grumman was created when the Northrop Corporation bought Grumman Aerospace in 1994. According to acompany timeline, Northrop began building fighters and bombers for World War II. Grumman also built military aircraft, as well as private jets, and was the chief contractor for theApollo lunar...
Goals include showcasing how airliners can burn half the fuel and generate 75 percent less pollution during each flight as compared to now, while also being much quieter than today’s jets – perhaps even when flying supersonic. NASA’s renewed emphasis on X-planes is called, “New Aviation...