NASA's turning to commercial companies Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, to build and maintain its new spacesuits.
contract to design and develop a new generation of suits for the International Space Station. Since NASA is purchasing its suits from Collins and Axion as a service, the vendors are free to make additional suits for non-NASA customers as well
"The beauty of this contract is the functional requirements for these two suits are very, very close. So at any given time, we could ask either of those contractors to actually start working on the other what we call platform," says Lara Kearney, manager of NASA's Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program. "We also have what we call an on-ramp clause in the contract, which means if another company comes into play and they have the capability to compete, we can actually bring them on to the contract and allow them to compete on task orders as well."
Kearney says the continued competition helps incentivize the contractors to perform on cost and schedule, and ultimately helps keep the expense to the government down. CNBC got a behind-the-scenes look at the new suit that Collins Aerospace is designing in collaboration with partners ILC Dover and
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