46 SMT007 MAGAZINE I AUGUST 2024
CACI Awarded $2 Billion Task Order
to Provide Modern Digital Solutions
to NASA E
CACI International Inc announced that it won an
eight-year contract valued at up to $2 billion to
provide digital solutions technology to standard-
ize and centralize 11 of NASA's IT services under
the NASA Consolidated Applications and Plat-
form Services (NCAPS) award. NCAPS expands
CACI's current relationship with NASA and will
bring enterprise-wide automation across more
than 200 systems from various NASA locations
into a single program, thus enhancing efficiency
while boosting productivity.
ispace RESILIENCE Lunar Lander
Successfully Achieves Testing Milestone
in Preparation for Mission 2 E
ispace, inc., a global lunar exploration com-
pany, announced today that the flight model of
its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 RESILIENCE lunar
lander has successfully completed thermal vac-
uum testing and remains on schedule for a Win-
ter 2024 launch.
BAE Systems, GlobalFoundries
Collaborate to Strengthen Supply of
Essential Semiconductors for National
Security Programs E
Under the strategic agreement, the companies
will align technology roadmaps and collabo-
rate on long-term strategies for increasing U.S.
semiconductor innovation and manufacturing,
with the joint goal of advancing the ecosys-
tem for domestic fabrication and packaging of
secure chips and solutions for use in aerospace
and defense systems.
Lockheed Martin Selected To Develop
Next Generation Weather Satellite
Constellation E
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to
develop and build the nation's next generation
weather satellite constellation, Geostation-
ary Extended Observations (GeoXO), for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration (NOAA).
Shane Whiteside Appointed as
New PCBAA Chair E
Summit Interconnect President and CEO
Shane Whiteside was recently appointed as
chair of the Printed Circuit Board Association
of America (PCBAA), replacing Travis Kelly,
CEO of Isola Group. Shane's distinguished
career in PCB manufacturing lends itself well
to PCBAA's mission as an important advocacy
vehicle for the PCB industry.
NASA, Boeing Provide Next Update on
Space Station Crew Flight Test E
NASA and Boeing continue to evaluate Star-
liner's propulsion system performance and
five small helium leaks in the spacecra's ser-
vice module, gathering as much data as possible
while docked to the International Space Station.
DARPA Researchers Highlight Application
Areas for Quantum Computing E
DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking program
kicked off with the goal of reinventing the met-
rics critical to measuring quantum computing
progress and applying scientific rigor to oen
unsubstantiated claims about quantum com-
puting's future promise.
