AWS accelerator initiatives will offer $100M in credits to federal agencies for cloud and AI services One program will support defense applications, the other will boost scientific research in fields ranging from biotech to quantum computing. Read More
Starfish Space wins $54.5M Space Force contract for another satellite servicing vehicle Starfish’s Otter spacecraft will conduct maneuvers in geosynchronous Earth orbit, with delivery scheduled in 2028. Read More
Space entrepreneurs see defense projects as next frontier for funding and innovation Will the Golden Dome be a golden opportunity for commercial space ventures? That may be a bit of an exaggeration.… Read More
Military tech giant Anduril lands in Bellevue, doubling footprint in Seattle region Anduril is expanding in the Seattle area with a new office in Bellevue, Wash. The defense tech giant leased 39,851… Read More
Tech Vets: Christopher Pavel connects innovators to the military problems they can help solve [Editor’s note: “Tech Vets: Profiles in Leadership and Innovation,” is a GeekWire series showcasing U.S. military veterans leading companies within the Pacific… Read More
Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA on Pentagon list for $5.6B in launch contracts The Department of Defense has put Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin in the running for a share of up to $5.6… Read More
Three Pacific Northwest space companies win awards from Space Force venture fund SpaceWERX, which essentially serves as a venture fund for the U.S. Space Force, has awarded contracts worth as much as… Read More
Podcast Inside the world of aviation, space and defense news with the team behind Hype Aviation This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we go behind the scenes of Hype Aviation, a news aggregation site that you… Read More
Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne faces limbo after FTC files suit The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit to block Lockheed Martin’s $4.4 billion acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne, saying that… Read More
Karman Systems acquires Systima to target hypersonic and space technology Mukilteo, Wash.-based Systima Technologies has been acquired by Karman Missile & Space Systems as part of Karman’s push into the… Read More
Amazon touts ‘technical superiority’ over Microsoft as it seeks to reopen JEDI bidding in newly unsealed court filing Amazon is asking a federal judge to block the Defense Department from enlisting Microsoft for a contentious and lucrative cloud… Read More
Amazon challenges Pentagon’s award of $10B JEDI cloud contract to rival Microsoft Amazon is protesting the Defense Department’s surprise decision to award a lucrative cloud contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense… Read More
Acting Pentagon chief is facing an ethics investigation over charges of Boeing bias Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who was a veteran Boeing executive before going to the Pentagon, is facing an ethics… Read More
Seattle-area Earth observation satellite factory LeoStella is open for business When you hear the words “satellite factory,” LeoStella‘s operations in a nondescript office park south of Seattle probably isn’t the image… Read More
