Oceaneering to Team with Collins Aerospace, ILC Dover on NASA''s Next-Generation Spacesuit Program
Oceaneering International ("Oceaneering") (NYSE: OII ) announces that Oceaneering Space Systems ("OSS"), a division of the Aerospace and Defense Technologies segment, will serve on a team led by Collins Aerospace ("Collins"), a Raytheon Technologies business selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA") to develop next-generation extravehicular spacesuits. NASA is enlisting commercial partners to develop, build, and maintain new spacesuit technology. The Collins team, which also includes ILC Dover, has decades of experience supplying spacesuits to NASA. Collins is one of two companies that received access to a NASA contract for Extravehicular Activity Services ("xEVAS") worth up to $3.5 billion over 12 years to supply spacesuits for future missions. Next-generation spacesuits require new technologies for missions targeted to begin as early as 2025 through 2034. These new suits are expected to allow astronauts to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to Mars.
Oceaneering to Team with Collins Aerospace, ILC Dover on NASA''s Next-Generation Spacesuit Program
Oceaneering International ("Oceaneering") (NYSE: OII ) announces that Oceaneering Space Systems ("OSS"), a division of the Aerospace and Defense Technologies segment, will serve on a team led by Collins Aerospace ("Collins"), a Raytheon Technologies business selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ("NASA") to develop next-generation extravehicular spacesuits. NASA is enlisting commercial partners to develop, build, and maintain new spacesuit technology. The Collins team, which also includes ILC Dover, has decades of experience supplying spacesuits to NASA. Collins is one of two companies that received access to a NASA contract for Extravehicular Activity Services ("xEVAS") worth up to $3.5 billion over 12 years to supply spacesuits for future missions. Next-generation spacesuits require new technologies for missions targeted to begin as early as 2025 through 2034. These new suits are expected to allow astronauts to work outside the International Space Station, explore the lunar surface on Artemis missions, and prepare for human missions to Mars.