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“House Bill 577 co-sponsored by Rep. Philip Wayne Griffitts, Jr. and Rep. Alina Garcia, and Senate Bill 968 co-sponsored by Sen. Alexis Calatayud and Sen. Jay Trumbull, expand Florida’s spaceport system territory to include Homestead Air Reserve Base and Tyndall Air Force Base into Florida’s spaceport territory. This enhancement helps attract a diverse range of aerospace companies and investors, driving greater economic growth and technological progress in new regions of Florida’s already unbeatable location. Including these two bases into the spaceport system territory bolsters and fortifies current operations, while enhancing opportunities for aerospace development. Florida’s spaceport system territory currently includes these strategic locations: Cape Canaveral Spaceport, Cecil Spaceport, Eglin Air Force Base, Cape San Blas, Space Coast Regional Airport and Spaceport and Patrick Space Force Base. The state can better support military resilience by enhancing the bases and creating aerospace hubs in new regions of the state”.

Favorable operating conditions and macroeconomic tailwinds are supporting consolidation activity and driving growth across the Air, Land, Sea, & Space landscape. Managing Director Tess Oxenstierna expands on near-term M&A projections in our latest Market Update: https://hubs.la/Q02gFPvv0 #aerospaceindustry #aerospace #defense #spacetechnology #marketresearch

The White House’s National Space Council, Congress, and National Space Council Users’ Advisory Group have made competing proposals on how the U.S. should authorize private sector novel space activities. The prospects for getting any proposal passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law are slim. But all sides agree on the need for a mission authorization framework - just disagree on how to do it - so there is a chance for a compromise solution. With or without a framework, the impacts on U.S. companies doing novel space activities are not clear. Learn more from Clayton Swope here: https://lnkd.in/enNJwCqe #Space #SpacePolicy #Defense #InternationalSecurity #NationalSecurity #PrivateSector #PublicSector #Congress

With the recent passage of Florida Senate Bill 968, Space Florida is set to expand its aerospace footprint by adding Homestead Air Reserve Base and Tyndall AFB to its spaceport portfolio. This strategic move enhances the aerospace landscape and promises exciting opportunities for engine testing, satellite manufacturing, and more. With 146 projects in motion and a hefty $3.9 billion investment to date, the future of space exploration and development in Florida is bright. #AerospaceIndustry #SpaceFlorida  

Let's do a "Future Reach" to discover how our American Military Maritime Manufacturing + Maintenance + Management Enterprise (AM5E) might best coordinate with the communities it depends upon to prepare its primary places of parts and products production as ideal for our a. rising adult, b. aging out of the workforce, and c. those in between midstream in their careers, populations... The American Planning Association published an article this summer on how planners might perform futuristic thinking. Ponder, what are the necessary innovations we need to overcome current past-paradigm-centric policies and practices that are correlated to the housing production challenges being faced by communities, nationwide. Read the APA article, and contemplate, what have they likely gotten correctly, what have they not imagined but might want to consider? Please leave a comment. I'd like to reach the future faster, by bringing the best ideas for developing future ready neighborhoods. Great ideas need (metaphorically-speaking) bridges to cross over the chasm of inability to be realized (their valley of death). Great ideas need nurtured to become paradigm-shifting innovations. Innovations need to be put into policy and practice to support commercialization and be made the new common practice. We need to "Future Reach" to succeed at making the best places for our maritime makers, our increasingly-higher-technology-employing manufacturing, but predominantly and log-term-dependent upon people for doing the skillful work we need. Our sector, industry, needs the best of places for our fellow citizens we depend upon to produce our Navy's ships sea power arsenal, our machines of deterrence, our peace and prosperity protectors, our vessels of defense for commercial freedom on global seas and oceans and for liberty here at home. To create the ideal sustainable future ready communities, the time is now to "Future Reach". Will you join me on this critically important adventure for the global force for good, forged by the sea? https://lnkd.in/eFS_i2br

Biggest misconception: You have to be a subcontractor first. As a small business you can be a prime right out of the gate. Our team helps position small businesses to partner with the government as a Prime. There are several different strategies to do so. If you can answer the question: Does your solution solve a challenge that the government is experiencing? Then you can prime on a contract. ***Please note: Yes, there are some instances like if you're not on a GSA schedule or if you want to work with agencies like NASA where it may be a better strategy to sub first. What other misconceptions have you heard about government contracts? #procurement #govcon #federalcontracting ##smallbusinesstips

Especially for #smallbusiness seeking to onramp into the #rfpresponse market, note the comments below on how to approach pricing.

At the 16th European Space Conference Commissioner Thierry Breton outlined the European Union's space policy priorities for 2024 and beyond, emphasizing the establishment of a Single Market for space through the upcoming EU Space Law, addressing the crisis of losing independent access to space by advocating for a common launcher policy, and focusing on space system protection, defense, and commercialization to reinforce Europe's position as a space power and contribute to global standards 👇 https://lnkd.in/ewrk8GCN

Yeah, this is common. The game is to find a Fixed Price IT contract, underbid it, then hire some guy as a "consultant" to utterly and intentionally break the project at every stage to throw it into a mode where the entire project is no more than nasty emails, recriminations, and counter recriminations. The "consultant" (because the contractor does this indirectly) is basically holding the project hostage for an engineering change proposal, which is usually near double of what the original fixed price amount, so a 8M FP adds an ECP of 16M bringing it to 24M. It's basically white collar extortion, and it works more often than it should. The fix for this is for Firm Fixed Price bids to select the median bid (not the mean as that is easily gamed) instead of the low bid to determine the winner. If more than one company hits the median (which should be impossible without collusion), then you rebid. This would end the underball problem for good and all.