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  • Virgin Galactic Conducts Second 'SpaceShipTwo' Suborbital Test Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virgin Galactic Conducts Second ‘SpaceShipTwo’ Suborbital Test Flight

    Virgin Galactic launched its SpaceShipTwo spacecraft on Friday carrying four NASA-supported research payloads into suborbital space. NASA said Saturday the payloads aboard the second test flight are the Microgravity Multi-Phase Flow Experiment for Suborbital Testing from the agency’s Johnson Space Center; Vibration Isolation Platform from Controlled Dynamics; Collisions into Dust Experiment from the University of Central Florida in Orlando; and Electromagnetic Field Measurements from Johns Hopkins University.

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  • Johns Hopkins APL to Help DARPA Assess Social Science Methods for Ground Truths - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL to Help DARPA Assess Social Science Methods for Ground Truths

      John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received a $3.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to assess social science modeling approaches to reveal hidden truths in complex social systems. For a tw0 and one-half year period, APL said Wednesday it will work with JHU Whiting School of Engineering, Cornell University, University […] More

  • Gwendolyn Boyd, 33-Year Johns Hopkins APL Vet, Named Alabama State University President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gwendolyn Boyd, 33-Year Johns Hopkins APL Vet, Named Alabama State University President

    Gwendolyn Boyd, a three-decade Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory veteran, has been appointed president of the Alabama State University after serving as executive assistant to the chief of staff of the university since 2011, The Hub reported Monday. Boyd was also the chair of the John Hopkins University diversity leadership council since 2011, the university’s […] More