Delivery Order FA881808D0039-FA881816F0028

Peraton Inc. was awarded the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract III (NSROC III) by NASA's Goddard Space Center, a civilian agency, on October 1, 2016, with a definitive contract ceiling value of $334.9 million and an ultimate completion date of March 31, 2024. Under this cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Peraton serves as the principal implementer of NASA's Sounding Rockets Program, managing and providing all associated services and supplies except government-furnished property. The contractor...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's Launch Vehicle Division was awarded a $149.5 million cost-plus-incentive delivery order on March 1, 2023, for the Green Wave Mission Task Order under the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), a component of the Air Force Space Command responsible for military space systems development and acquisition. The contract, which carries no set-aside designation and is performance-based under the Sounding Rocket Program 4 master IDIQ, will be executed in Chandler,...

This delivery order contract, awarded on November 17, 2010, is a Cost Plus Incentive arrangement valued at approximately $35.2 million under the Sounding Rocket Program 3 master IDIQ. Orbital Sciences LLC's Launch Vehicles Division, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, was selected as the prime contractor to perform work at its facility in Chandler, Arizona, for the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMSC), a Defense Department agency. The contract, designated as "UAE P3/P4, PATRIOT...

This is a delivery order under the Sounding Rocket Program 3 (SRP-3) indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to Orbital Sciences LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation. The $1,134,611.25 cost-plus-fixed-fee order is for the Sounding Rocket Program (SRP) - 3 Peacekeeper and Minuteman Pathfinder task, with a period of performance through February 2017. The contract does not have a set-aside...

Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC, doing business as Orion Space Solutions, has been awarded a $3.13M cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract by the Space and Missile Systems Center, a defense agency under the Department of the Air Force. Under this contract, the company will establish an Ionosphere Mission Operations Center designed to monitor and forecast space environment phenomena while detecting human-influenced ionospheric disturbances, including those generated by...

This is a $499,960 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Mississippi State University to develop standardized methods for using high-power amateur rockets to fly experiments and low-technology readiness level (TRL) payloads. The objective is to determine optimal approaches through flight tests and computational analyses, exploring factors like rocket structure response, aeroacoustic inputs, and heating. The resulting methods will be documented in a...

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation has been awarded a $23.7 million delivery order against the Department of the Air Force Space Command Space and Missile Systems Center's $986 million Sounding Rocket Program 4 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract vehicle. This order, designated BUZZARD 1 SCO, will support launch services without a set-aside and is to be completed by August 2020 in Chandler, Arizona. As the prime contractor, Northrop Grumman will likely utilize partners such as...

Peraton Inc. received a $335.89 billion Cost Plus Award Fee definitive contract from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on October 1, 2023, for the NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract IV (NSROC IV). The contract, which extends through September 30, 2028, requires Peraton to design, fabricate, integrate, and perform flight qualification testing of sub-orbital payloads; provide launch vehicles and associated hardware; and manage various mission launch operations. The work will be performed at...

NASA awarded a $100,041 research grant to Fourth State Communications, LLC, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to provide measurements of ionospheric density in support of two NASA sounding rockets designed to explore the Earth's atmospheric dynamo. The contract, which carries a completion date of September 7, 2026, represents a civilian agency effort to advance scientific understanding of ionospheric phenomena through direct measurement and analysis...

Rocket Lab USA Inc. was awarded an Other Transaction Agreement for Tranche 3 Tracking (T3TRK) by the U.S. Air Force on December 17, 2025, with a ceiling value of $816.3 million and an ultimate completion date of December 20, 2031. This contract falls under the Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) pathway, specifically the Middle Tier Rapid Prototyping (MTRP) program, and is designated as part of the T3 Tracking Layer initiative under Air Force Acquisition Program Number NKY. The work will be...