Procurement Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/tag/procurement/ Covering the business and politics of space Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:47:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png Procurement Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com/tag/procurement/ 32 32 80681979 Space is a warfighting domain. We need wartime urgency for procurement reform. https://spacenews.com/space-is-a-warfighting-domain-we-need-wartime-urgency-for-procurement-reform/ https://spacenews.com/space-is-a-warfighting-domain-we-need-wartime-urgency-for-procurement-reform/#respond Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=555870 Last year, Anduril and Apex Space successfully launched their first joint mission, Aries SN1, with Anduril’s edge-processing payload. Pictured above is a photo taken by SN-1 sensors and processed by Anduril’s edge-payload, all tasked through Anduril’s Lattice platform. Credit: Anduril

When America embarked on the journey to build the Arsenal of Democracy in World War II, President Roosevelt had a simple instruction: “speed, speed, speed.” His emphasis on speed spurred […]

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Emil Michael, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering: ‘How do we create an environment where new companies that have real solutions can come in?’

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The Pentagon is putting $13 billion behind its talk of embracing commercial space, committing serious money to low-Earth orbit satellite services. This marks a dramatic increase in spending on commercial […]

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NASA is now seeking procurement ideas and solutions to encourage innovation from diverse perspectives, improve reach, reduce barriers, and ultimately meet and exceed agency goals. The NASA Acquisition Innovation Launchpad […]

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