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Ball Aerospace

US
commercialFounded 1956
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
www.baesystems.com/en-us/our-company/inc-businesses/space-and-mission-systems
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Ball Aerospace submitted a bid of $486,900,000 for the GXS contract while L3Harris submitted a bid of $764,900,000.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative FinancialJan 4, 2024GAO denies L3Harris protest over Ball Aerospace weather satellite instrument contract

Makenzie Lystrup was not involved in the GXS procurement and had divested any financial interests in Ball Aerospace by the time NASA selected Ball for the GXS award.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 4, 2024GAO denies L3Harris protest over Ball Aerospace weather satellite instrument contract

The Government Accountability Office denied L3Harris’s protest of NASA’s award of the GeoXO Sounder contract to Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 4, 2024GAO denies L3Harris protest over Ball Aerospace weather satellite instrument contract

BAE Systems planned to acquire Ball Aerospace for $5,500,000,000 in a transaction announced on 2023-08-17.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 4, 2024GAO denies L3Harris protest over Ball Aerospace weather satellite instrument contract

NASA awarded a $486,900,000 contract to Ball Aerospace on 2023-09-11 to develop the GeoXO Sounder (GXS) instrument for the Geostationary Extended Observations program for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipJan 4, 2024GAO denies L3Harris protest over Ball Aerospace weather satellite instrument contract

NASA’s cost realism adjustments led it to estimate a probable cost of Ball Aerospace’s bid at $553,900,000.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative FinancialJan 4, 2024GAO denies L3Harris protest over Ball Aerospace weather satellite instrument contract

Ball Aerospace developed and built the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) for the South Korean National Institute of Environmental Research.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductDec 13, 2023NASA will “baby” TEMPO to extend its life

NCAR/HAO will lead the science mission, while Ball Aerospace will manage the project and build the spectropolarimeter and spacecraft.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralDec 13, 2023NASA Selects Ball Aerospace for CMEx Mission Concept Study

Ball Aerospace was selected to manage a concept study for NASA's Chromospheric Magnetism Explorer (CMEx) mission.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralDec 13, 2023NASA Selects Ball Aerospace for CMEx Mission Concept Study

Ball Aerospace continues its legacy of providing reliable, cutting-edge hardware for NASA's Explorers program.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralDec 13, 2023NASA Selects Ball Aerospace for CMEx Mission Concept Study

Prior to joining True Anomaly, Diana Lovati served as the CISO at Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 9, 2023True Anomaly Names Diana Lovati as First-Ever Chief Information Security Officer

Ball Aerospace, Parsons, General Dynamics, and Omni Federal each won $9,700,000 contracts from the U.S. Space Force to develop competing designs of next-generation ground systems.

Mentioned as: ball aerospaceOrg RelationshipNov 9, 2023Four bidders selected to develop ground systems for U.S. missile-warning satellites

At Ball Aerospace, Lovati was responsible for a robust Information Security program that included governance, risk, compliance, information assurance, cybersecurity operations, threat intelligence, data protection, and cybersecurity supply chain risk management.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductNov 9, 2023True Anomaly Names Diana Lovati as First-Ever Chief Information Security Officer

OrbitSecure demonstrated ground-satellite-ground spaceflight heritage by operating on a Ball Aerospace prototype payload in June 2023 and on the International Space Station using an Amazon Web Services Snowcone edge computing device provided by Axiom Space in July 2023.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralOct 18, 2023SpiderOak Secures SDA Agreement for Rapid Resilience Command and Control Research

Ball Aerospace designed and built the Wide Field Instrument's opto-mechanical assembly, including the optical bench, element wheel, thermal control system, and alignment compensation mechanism.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductSep 15, 2023NASA and Ball Aerospace Successfully Complete Roman Space Telescope's Primary Instrument

Debra Facktor previously held the position of Vice President and General Manager of Strategic Operations at Ball Aerospace.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceNarrative GeneralSep 13, 2023SSPI’s 2023 Mentor of the Year — she is Head of U.S. Space Systems at Airbus U.S. Space & Defense

Ball Aerospace won a $489,600,000 contract to deliver a sounder for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 12, 2023Ball Aerospace Wins $489.6 Million Contract to Deliver Next-Gen Weather Satellite Sounder

Under the contract, Ball Aerospace will build and deliver one GeoXO sounder, integrate it with the next-generation NOAA weather satellite, and provide support for the first flight instrument.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 12, 2023Ball Aerospace Wins $489.6 Million Contract to Deliver Next-Gen Weather Satellite Sounder

The contract between Ball Aerospace and NOAA includes options for additional GeoXO sounders beyond the single awarded unit.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceTechnical ProductSep 12, 2023Ball Aerospace Wins $489.6 Million Contract to Deliver Next-Gen Weather Satellite Sounder

Work on the GeoXO Sounder contract will be completed at Ball Aerospace’s facility in Boulder, Colorado; NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Mentioned as: Ball AerospaceOrg RelationshipSep 11, 2023NASA selects Ball Aerospace to develop NOAA’s GeoXO sounder instrument
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