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Ball Aerospace & Technologies

Ball Aerospace & Technologies

Ball Aerospace, now part of BAE Systems' Space & Mission Systems division following the $5.6 billion acquisition completed in February 2024, is a leading provider of advanced satellites, space telescopes, and defense systems. The company delivers intelligence gathering, missile defense, and electronic warfare capabilities for national security and civil space missions. Ball Aerospace shipped the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base for launch in early 2024. As the first of two operational environmental satellites for Space Systems Command, WSF-M

Legal name
Ball Aerospace & Technologies
Founded
1956
Website
https://ball.com
Ownership
UNKNOWN

Contract Awards

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Award count
9
Total disclosed
$35,153,941
Latest award
Dec 1, 2021
Sources: USAspending.gov

Links

Website

Identity Trust

Computed from durable identifiers and the number of independent source systems attached to this entity.

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Trust score
3/100
Confidence
Sparse
Identifier types
2
WIKIDATADOMAIN
Reference sources: Wikidata, Launch Library 2 API

Company News

NASA Selects Ball Aerospace to Develop NOAA’s GeoXO Sounder InstrumentNASA / Sep 11, 2023NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, to develop the sounder instrument for a Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) satellite program.Ball and Raytheon win weather instrument study contractsSpaceNews / May 18, 2022Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Raytheon Intelligence & Space will begin developing technologies for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next generation of weather satellites under contracts announced May 17.Ball Aerospace and L3Harris win weather instrument study contractsSpaceNews / Oct 1, 2021The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts to Ball Aerospace & Technologies and L3Harris Technologies to study instruments for Geostationary and Extended Observations (GeoXO), the agency’s next generation of geostationary satellites.

Evidence

OFFICIALLaunch Library 2 API
RESEARCH_REPORTNew Space Tracker company directory
RESEARCH_REPORTNew Space Tracker company directory
RESEARCH_REPORTWikidata

Profile Metadata

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Outgoing Relationships

SuppliesU.S. Department of DefenseCUSTOMER_MARKETUSAspending.gov

Holds 9+ recent U.S. DoD prime contracts (largest ~$11,373,344).

Incoming Relationships

No records available.

All Contract Awards

$562,992
Dec 1, 2021
FA945122C0003

DoD award FA945122C0003 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov
$794,775
Sep 30, 2021
FA880821C0009

DoD award FA880821C0009 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov
$960,156
Sep 30, 2021
FA880821C0002

DoD award FA880821C0002 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov
$1,893,679
Jul 17, 2020
FA945120C0007

DoD award FA945120C0007 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov
$5,256,073
Jul 9, 2020
FA865020C1129

DoD award FA865020C1129 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov
$11,373,344
May 5, 2017
FA875017C0066

DoD award FA875017C0066 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov
$3,723,852
Dec 12, 2016
FA945117C0090

DoD award FA945117C0090 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov
$8,577,964
Mar 11, 2016
FA865016C6610

DoD award FA865016C6610 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov
$2,011,105
Oct 19, 2015
0011

DoD award 0011 to BALL AEROSPACE & TECHNOLOGIES CORP..

USAspending.gov

Identifier Reference

WIKIDATA
Q805116
Wikidata
DOMAIN
ball.com
Wikidata
DOMAIN
ballaerospace.com
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