January 15, 2016 – The Wall Street Journal highlighted SNC Thursday as a winner of NASA’s much anticipated Commercial Cargo Resupply Services 2 (CRS2) contract, saying, “In picking Sierra Nevada, the only contractor using a winged vehicle instead of a capsule, NASA chose an option able to return and touch down on a runway, with the added benefit of more quickly returning experiments and subjecting them to less landing stress. Julie Robinson, NASA’s chief scientist for the space station, said Sierra Nevada’s proposal calls for returning vulnerable plant and animal experiments, as well as various other types of biological samples, within hours after touchdown. Current procedures can take a day or more.”
About SNC
SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Our innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for national security systems across all domains – sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is at the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. We are one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and we pride ourselves on our ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It's part of our mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen.