$1,274,597,995
to THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC
DRAGONFLY EXTENDED PHASE B MISSION UNDER 80MSFC20D0004 AEROSPACE RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING SUPPORT (ARDES) II.
Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.
What the model surfaced from this award
Latest obligation on the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan, which began in 2022 and is scheduled through 2028.
Dragonfly is NASA's flagship astrobiology mission to search for signs of life on Titan; this 2026 increment sustains development of a rotorcraft lander for a 2034 launch.
Johns Hopkins APL leads systems integration; this signals sustained demand for aerospace contractors, avionics suppliers, and specialized instrumentation vendors through 2028.
Dragonfly represents U.S. leadership in planetary exploration and astrobiology; China has announced competing lunar and Mars missions, making sustained funding critical to maintain technological edge.
Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-17. Cost: $0.003138.
- 2026-03-30INTERSTELLAR MAPPING AND ACCELERATION PROBE (IMAP) PHASE CD$400.0M
- 2026-05-08TIMED PHASE C/D/E LETTER CONTRACT$246.0M
- 2026-04-30U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION HAS A REQUIREMENT FOR MISSION ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (MEOR) SUPPORT SERVICES INCLUDING OPERATIONAL ANALYTICS AND OTHER TECHNICAL SUPPORT ACTIVITIES.$45.1M
- 2026-04-14TO DEVELOP RITCA AS AN ONLINE AND MOBILE PHONE-BASED APPLICATION. RITCA WILL SERVE AS A DISASTER RESPONSE TOOL FOR A REGIONAL AREA WITHIN THE BROAD RANGE OF THE MEDICAL RESPONDER COMMUNITY. THIS APPLICATION WILL ALLOW FOR SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHR$43.5M
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