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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received a potential 10-year, $2B contract to help NASA  develop technology concepts and analyze data for robotic space missions. The Aerospace, Research, Development and Engineering Support Services II contract has a minimum ordering value of $50M and a maximum ordering value $1B over the five-year base period. ARDES II would reach its potential value if the five-year option period is exercised.

NASA is looking for potential sources of a new main engine for the Orion spacecraft’s European service module, which serves as its main power and propulsion element for maneuvers in lunar orbit, SpaceNews reported Friday.

SpaceX has secured the first spot on a potential $7B NASA contracting vehicle to deliver supplies, cargo and scientific  experiments to a lunar gateway being developed to host astronauts on moon exploration missions.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of the space business at Lockheed Martin, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for driving the company’s satellite capabilities as well as the nation’s upcoming lunar and space exploration missions. This marks the fifth overall Wash100 Award for Ambrose.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy partnered with the Department of Energy, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and other technology companies to launch a new consortium to advance research into the new coronavirus using supercomputers, TechCruch reported Monday. The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium also includes Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Google as well as NASA, National Science Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and national laboratories, including Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Sandia National Laboratory.

Eight companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $250M contract to build, refurbish and modify NASA facilities or infrastructure assets located in Ohio.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Dave Wajsgras, president of the intelligence, information and services business at Raytheon, as an inductee into the 2020 Wash100 Award for his leadership in efforts to help government customers develop and update technology platforms as part of multimillion dollar contract awards.

NASA has awarded Axiom Space a potential $140M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to build a habitable module that would connect to the International Space Station to support the agency's initiative of promoting commercial use of the orbiting laboratory.

Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) reorganized its business into three segments - space infrastructure, Earth intelligence and MDA – in 2019 in an effort to streamline its operating structure and position the company for future growth, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

SpaceX has been selected to help NASA launch scientific payloads to an asteroid located between Jupiter and Mars as part of an estimated $117M effort to study planet collisions and metal particles in the solar system.