Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos, is an American applied science and information technology company headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, that serves the United States Department of Defense (DoD), the United States Intelligence Community, and NASA. Within the space industry, Dynetics focuses on providing flexible flight hardware development, including propulsion systems, small satellite development, and system integration, offering solutions from prototypes to human-rated systems. They were also selected by NASA to develop a Human Landing System for the Artemis program.
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The Government Accountability Office denied the Blue Origin and Dynetics protests on 2021-07-30.
$389,000,000 of NASA’s available HLS-related funding was already committed to base period awards made to Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX in 2020.
The Government Accountability Office released a 76-page decision on 2021-08-10 denying protests filed in April by Blue Origin and Dynetics of NASA’s Human Landing System award to SpaceX.
The Government Accountability Office rejected on 2021-07-30 protests filed by Blue Origin and Dynetics regarding the SpaceX NASA contract for Starship development.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied protests on 2021-07-30 that Blue Origin and Dynetics filed against NASA’s award of a single Human Landing System contract to SpaceX.
The Government Accountability Office is reviewing protests filed in April by Blue Origin and Dynetics regarding the Human Landing System awards and has an 2021-08-04 deadline to issue a ruling.
Dynetics submitted a bid of $8.5–9 billion for the Human Landing System contract.
Dynetics proposed between $8,500,000,000 and $9,000,000,000 for its Human Landing System bid.
$400,000,000 of the $850,000,000 provided in the final fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill was needed to support work on the three initial base period Human Landing System awards to Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX.
Dynetics received a $253,000,000 base period award for the HLS program in April 2020.
Dynetics filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office on 2021-04-26 seeking to overturn the HLS Option A award.
NASA selected SpaceX for the HLS Option A award on 2021-04-16, and work on the award is on hold because of protests by Blue Origin and Dynetics.
The Government Accountability Office is reviewing protests filed by Blue Origin and Dynetics about NASA’s selection of SpaceX for the single Human Landing System award, with a decision due by 2021-08-04.
Dynetics filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office on 2021-04-26 over NASA’s decision to make a single Human Landing System Option A award to SpaceX.
NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk indicated on 2021-04-27 that it was too soon to determine whether the GAO protests by Blue Origin and Dynetics would delay moving forward on Human Landing System work.
The HLS base period awards made in 2020-04-01 to teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX were set to end 2021-04-30.
NASA delayed a decision on which of the three companies that won base period HLS contracts in April 2020—Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX—will receive Option A awards to proceed with lander development.
NASA will execute two-month no-cost extensions to the HLS contracts with Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX that were set to end on 2021-02-28.
The two-month no-cost extensions allow the HLS contracts awarded in 2020-04-01 to Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX to run through 2021-04-30 without providing additional funding to the companies.
Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX each received Human Landing System contracts in 2020 and are waiting for NASA to select who will proceed into full development.