NASA Contract Award to Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
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This contract provides $57.39 million in federal funding to support NASA's ongoing robotic space missions and aerospace research initiatives through the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The agency is responsible for funding and overseeing the research and engineering tasks performed under this contract.
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC
The organization is responsible for executing the research, development, and engineering tasks as defined by NASA task orders.
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Key Facts
- NASA awarded a contract valued at $57.39 million to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC.
- The contract supports the Van Allen Probe Phase E extended mission.
- Work includes aerospace research, development, and engineering support (ARDES) across all NASA mission directorates.
- The contractor will provide technical advice, studies, and reports to assist in NASA program execution.
- Task orders will focus on two categories: essential research capabilities for space systems engineering and general aerospace research/development.
- Essential research capabilities include systems test and evaluation, IT, simulation, modeling, and operations analysis.
- The scope covers the full mission life cycle for robotic space missions, from concept to data analysis.
- Task orders may involve autonomous deep-space and Earth-orbiting spacecraft, subsystems, experiments, and instruments.
- The contractor is tasked with technology transfer, partnering, and commercialization activities.
- Work assignments include hardware, software, systems engineering, scientific analysis, and project management.
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This contract provides $57.39 million in federal funding to support NASA's ongoing robotic space missions and aerospace research initiatives through the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
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