WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency. The Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program On-Ramp1 Multiple Award contract is a firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract with a maximum value of $476 million, cumulatively amongst all the selected contractors, and a performance period through Nov. 15, 20  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 -- NASA issued the following news release: Credit: NASA NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum potential value of $973.7 million. Following a phase-in period that starts Tuesday, Oct. 1 and runs to   more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Sept. 6 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * Editor's note: The following funding announcement was issued by the U.S. Department of Energy. The DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility and Brookhaven National Laboratory are partnering to host one of the five awarded projects. The Big Data Science and Applications Summer School at Brookhaven and Jefferson Labs offers students an immersive  more