Sierra Nevada News

Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spacecraft on the ground at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield as photographed by 7NEWS' AirTracker7 on Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

The $355 million U.S. Air Force contract to build a light attack aircraft in Jacksonville will likely be decided 'after the first of the year,' according to Jacksonville Aviation Authority Executive Director Steve Grossman.

Huntsville, Alabama is now home to one of America's fastest growing private companies, and the top Woman-Owned Federal Contractor in the United States.

Huntsville, Ala., is now home to one of America's fastest growing private companies, and the top Woman-Owned Federal Contractor in the United States.

This artist's rendering shows the Dream Chaser, a mini-space shuttle developed by Sierra Nevada Corp.

Sierra Nevada Corp., one of four firms working on space taxi designs for NASA, is stepping up plans to expand its work force and operations in Florida, company and state officials announced May 4. "The goal that we have here is really quite simple - we want to take the 'Help Wanted' signs out of the windows in Russia and bring it back here," Mark ... (more)

The U.S. Air Force has put out a new request for proposal on its Light Air Support contract, and neither of the competitors for the contract is completely happy with it.

The U.S. Air Force's amended request for proposal on a contract for up 20 light air-support aircraft will be released at 6 p.m. Friday, an military news release said.

Mini-shuttle company Sierra Nevada Corp. will visit Cocoa Beach on Friday to discuss its interest in expanding operations to the Space Coast, Florida Today reports.

A series of Space Act Agreements has been signed by Sierra Nevada Corporation with NASA's Johnson Space Center dating back to May 2011 to assist in both the technical development of, and operations support for, the Dream Chaser Space System.