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Todays a pretty decent day for livestreams and digital events, from Diet Cigs listening party to Tim Burgess tweet fest over New Orders Lowlife, but one specific stream is certified galactic: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museums Space Songs: Through the Distance.

The YouTube concert goes down tonight (April 30) at 8 p.m. ET, featuring musicians sharing songs about space and isolation to celebrate how extreme situations can bring out the very best in us all and why theres no challenge we cant face together, according to the event description.

The event is hosted by Testeds Adam Savage, with performances by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Best Coasts Bethany Cosentino, clipping, Dan Deacon, Grace Potter, and more. Oh, and Sting!

We know that people love space, writes the Smithsonian. And its not just because of moon rocks and pretty pictures of the cosmos. Space exploration is an extraordinary expression of humanity and can inspire us like nothing else. Naturally, there are a lot of great songs about spaceships and astronauts about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances And many artists use solitude to fuel creativity and experimentation. We could all use a little bit of that inspiration right now. So while our museum remains closed to the public, we want to share some songs that inspire us with viewers at home.

Sounds like a blast.

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The main purpose of this report is to provide an in depth analysis of the global Satellite Remote Sensing market including all the stakeholders in the industry. The research report presents forecasted market size and trends on the basis of past and present status of the industry. Also to understand, the analysis of complicated data is presented in simple language. Report gives in depth analysis of all the aspects of the market industry. The report includes the study of major players that includes market followers, leaders and new entrants by regions and countries. Furthermore, report offers the current technological innovations affecting the growth of the market in the long term.

In addition, report covers all challenges for the players and risk factor which ae responsible for restraining the growth of the market over the forecast period. Some essential tools for the market movements such as PORTER, PESTEL and SVOR analysis have been presented in this report with potential impact of economic factors by regions on the market. Also in terms of revenue, report helps to estimate the CAGR of the market size of upcoming five years on the basis of historic data study.

This study covers following key players:Airbus S.A.S (France)Ball Corporation (US)Boeing (US)Space Exploration Technologies (US)Thales Group (French)China Aerospace Science and Technology (China)Lockheed Martin (US)Mitsubishi Electric (Tokyo)Orbital ATK (US)Planet Labs (US)

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Furthermore, report helps to analyse internal as well as external factors that might affect the global Satellite Remote Sensing market business positively or negatively. Therefore report offers a clear revolutionary view of the industry in advance. Report also helps users to understand the various dynamics of the global Satellite Remote Sensing market. In addition, report provides structure of the market by analysing the segments such as product type, application, end users, key regions and key companies. Also report projects the market size of Satellite Remote Sensing. In addition, research report on global Satellite Remote Sensing market offers clear representation of the key players which are functioning in the industry.

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Market segment by Type, the product can be split into SATCOMRadarEO/IROthers

Market segment by Application, split into Earth ObservationTelecommunicationMeteorologyMapping and NavigationOthers

Report provides competitive analysis of the small and large players. Also report gives in detailed information about the players on the basis of type, financial position, price, growth strategies, product portfolio and regional presence of the players in the global Satellite Remote Sensing market. Report also covers the key regions which are likely to have great market growth over the forecast period. The major regions are North America, South America, Europe, Asia-pacific and Middle East Africa. The initiatives taken by the government, universities and policy makers to promote the global Satellite Remote Sensing market in the form of grants, funds and investments into the development of the market are commendable. This initiatives are expected to boost the growth of the global Satellite Remote Sensing market.

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Over 50 yearsafter developing the technology and computers that guided NASA's Apollo missions to the Moon, Draper is working on new technologies that will assist the upcoming robotic and human missions to the Moon, and further.

Seamus Tuohy, one of the world's leading experts on space exploration and navigation, and Principal Director of Space Systems at Draper gave an exclusive interview to Interesting Engineering going into detail about the technical and engineering challenges these missions will face, and what comes next.

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"Communication is one of the main challenges. Uncrewed, or autonomous systems, still require communication between beacons and navigation systems, as well as with controllers on the ground. When you get to low Earth orbit, that communication takes a second, when you get to the Moon that becomes just a couple of seconds, when you get to Mars it's 90 minutes round trip, and when you go to further bodies it's even longer.Imagine holding a conversation with someone and you would wait, and wait, and wait, then you get an answer, but by then they've already gone beyond what you've told them to look out for.

Then, another big challenge is that, by necessity, these autonomous probes need to have a high level of automation. They need to be able to react to the environment, to what their sensors are telling them is there, and to be able to either proceed with the mission or to divert the mission to something different, or to go into safe mode and wait for help from home.So you need to design a system now that it alone can sense its environment, it alone can have contingency operations. It has to be able to understand what its sensors are telling it and proceed with the mission."

"Navigation systems are another big focus in order for these missions to move forward smoothly. These systems have to be robust enough to take on the environment presented to them without having to go into safe mode and potentially losing the mission. A robust system can do a little more, it knows it will be presented with things that aren't known as it goes into the mission. If you design a system correctly, in a robust manner, it can still accomplish the mission."

"Draper specializes in navigation, guidance, and control, and we've done this since Apollo. The best way to explain that is: navigation tells you where you are, guidance says where you want to go, and control is how you get there. So we put all that together, which is a collection of sensors, software, intelligence and onto flight computers that Draper develops that can survive in deep space, even though radiation and temperature.

We also provide very high-reliability robust systems. So, precision navigation and hazard detection and avoidance is what Draper is developing now by using cameras, radar, lidar, and different sensors in order for these landings to happen safely and successfully, on the Moon and other planetary bodies."

"If you would like to find the Rosetta Stone of our Solar System, it's in the Moon and these asteroids. The Earth's geology changes over time, but the Earth's Moon hasn't changed at all. It is what it was billions of years ago, similar to the asteroids. They provide a touchdown to how the Solar System is formed."

"Usually the way you think of the next stage is that you have robotic systems that bring back very small samples. Then, we can get into the laboratories on Earth and then we can really really apply every instrument we can ever think of to study them and make a discovery on the samples.

Then the steps after that are when humans go and cover more ground, selecting high-value and high-interest experiments there, then also returning with the samples. Hopefully, humans will stay and be part of a community on these planetary bodies that are not only investigating the science available to them but also eventually going to work and doing things as we do on Earth, like manufacturing and development."

"That's actually very interesting. So we like Earth because we can live on Earth, we like the Moon because it's close and it's reachable, it's just a couple of days away and we can survive there, we like Mars because it's the closest to Earth in being able to live, it's not too cold or too hot to live on. So I would say that future missions after the Moon and Mars would be to the moons of Saturn, where you have an atmosphere. One such NASA mission is called Dragonflyand is due to send probes to one of Saturn's Moons called Titan. That's where I would say we may go next, the moons around Saturn."

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The "Global Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market: Focus on Subsystem, Technology Mode, Mission Type, Application, And End User - Analysis and Forecast, 2020-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

According to this report the deep space exploration and technology market is expected to showcase a significant growth due to the increasing space budgets by various government agencies, rising demand for deep space exploration small satellites, the emergence of private players in the space sector, and huge investments made by them.

The Global Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market report projects the market to grow at a CAGR of 6.42% on the basis of value during the forecast period from 2020 to 2030. North America is expected to dominate the global deep space exploration and technology market with an estimated share of 62.45% in 2020. North America, including major countries such as the U.S., is the most prominent region for the deep space exploration and technology market. In North America, the U.S. is estimated to account for a major market share in 2020 due to the rising number of space exploration missions led by the country.

In addition, the growth in the deep space exploration and technology market is highly driven by the increasing number of missions planned by various space agencies. These missions aim at investigating various intended celestial bodies such as Earth's moon, Mars, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's moons, the Sun, and asteroids. The purpose of these missions is to understand the planet's atmosphere and properties as well as look for the possibility of life. These missions are expected to present an opportunity for the deep space exploration and technology market.

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Five research payloads from the MIT Media Labs Space Exploration Initiative were recently deployed on the International Space Station for a 30-day research mission. Scientists, designers, and artists will be able to study the effects of prolonged microgravity, on-station radiation, and launch loads on experiments ranging from self-assembling architecture to biological pigments. The payloads launched on the SpaceX CRS-20 via the Dragon cargo ship atop a Falcon 9 rocket on March 6.

This first launch to the ISS represents a key milestone in the schedule of iterative microgravity testing that the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI) undertakes throughout each year, following a successful Karman line launch with Blue Origin and a second parabolic research flight over the past 12 months.

Sending five concurrent payloads to the International Space Station this is a huge milestone for the team, and something weve been working towards explicitly for nearly a year, says Ariel Ekblaw, SEIs founder and lead.

The payloads were integrated into the Nanoracks BlackBox, a locker-sized platform with mechanical mounting points and electrical connections for power, data, and communication capabilities. Payloads are fully integrated into BlackBox on the ground; when they reach ISS, the astronauts aboard integrate them into ISS experiment racks, then simply leave them alone the boxes are completely self-contained and remotely commanded via Nanoracks from the ground. This system allows for larger and more complex research payloads on the ISS, as the astronauts arent required to come near any potentially hazardous materials and dont need any special expertise to run the experiments.

The capabilities of this platform allow for precisely the kind of cross-disciplinary research that is the hallmark of the Space Exploration Initiative. The five payloads currently on the ISS represent SEIs unique approach to research, prototyping, and design for humanitys future in space.

Sojourner 2020 is payload of artworks, the first-ever international open call art payload to the ISS, selected by SEIs arts curator Xin Liu. Sojourner 2020 features a three-layer telescoping structure. Each layer of the structure rotates independently; the top layer remains still in weightlessness, while the middle and bottom layers spin at different speeds to produce centripetal accelerations that mimic lunar gravity and Martian gravity, respectively. Nine artists contributed works in a variety of different media, including carved stone sculpture, liquid pigment experiments, and sculptures made of transgender hormone replacement meds. Sojourner 2020 highlights the ways in which the arts can contribute to new means of encountering space; by including projects from indigenous peoples and gender minorities, the project additionally emphasizes key values of human dignity, equality, and democratizing access.

Space Miso, a collaboration between Maggie Coblentz at the MIT Media Lab and Joshua Evans at the University of Oxford, aims to map the emergence of a new space terroir. This research seeks to understand how the environment of space may uniquely alter the flavors of familiar foods, in particular through fermentation processes. This initial experiment sends a sample of miso to the ISS for 30 days and tracks how its microbiome and flavor chemistry may change compared to earthbound control samples.

The latest iteration of Ekblaws self-assemblingTESSERAE tiles tests new paradigms for in-orbit construction of satellites and future space habitats. The tiles (two pentagons, five hexagons) will be selectively released on-station to test autonomous self-assembly and docking over many days of sustained microgravity. These latest prototypes include an extensive suite of sensing and electro-permanent magnet actuation for full diagnostic capability (determining good and bad bonds between tiles as they join together) and structure reconfigurability.

Radiofungi: Biological Pigments for Radioprotection is a payload from the Mediated Matter Group. The Radiofungi team is researching the synthesis of biological pigments, including melanins and carotenoids, to explore the potential new strategies for radiation protection. Such pigments can be fabricated for a variety of applications, creating a new class of materials and coatings that can protect life on Earth, in deep space, and beyond. This payload examines the growth and behavior of five pigment-producing microorganisms during a one-month stint on the ISS.

BioX1 is an onboard nanopore genetic sequencer, designed by a research team from MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, testing an experiment apparatus for DNA analysis that may become the basis for a future Mars rover experiment. The experiment will analyze sequencing tools that assist in the Search for Extraterrestrial Genomes program, a NASA-funded life detection instrument that would detect nucleic acid-based life via single molecule sequencing.

The Nanoracks team supporting the MIT payloads is able to downlink data directly from the networked payload on the International Space Station, and then share directly to the researchers. The team is hard at work analyzing telemetry, sensor data, pictures, and videos to track each payloads current status. These results will be paired with a full holistic report on each payload upon return of the hardware to Earth. After the 30-day mission, the BlackBox will be packed up as return cargo in the Dragon capsule, splash down in the Pacific Ocean, and then Nanoracks will acquire BlackBox to return to MIT.

Several of these projects directly address research supported by the NASA-guided Translational Research Institute for Space Health. All represent collaborations across disciplines engineering, architecture, materials science, chemistry, art, technology, design, and more. This kind of cross-pollination and teamwork are core to SEIs mission.

For Ekblaw, that ethos doesnt extend only to research; its about bringing people together, building communities of people with different interests and expertise with shared goals and common experiences. Its why she flew any of the researchers who were able to make the trip down to Cape Canaveral to watch the launch together, and why she hosted a dinner for the researchers, the artists, and the Nanoracks team.

Our Space Exploration Initiative deployments are often MIT-wide endeavors it's an honor to have the opportunity to support research and collaborations that span departments, says Ekblaw. We are standing on the shoulders of giants, and are actively expanding our regular cadence of SEI launch opportunities, throughout the year, to an even broader community. This means building bridges across the space industry with academia, business, and government to profoundly democratize access to space.

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From studying our planet, to space flight, to astronomy, everything we know about space exploration seems limitless. But not even the wonderful world of space can be immune to the coronavirus.

Just like the rest of the world, thousands of NASA employees are working from home, and already have been since mid-March. But a change in workflow is not the only impact seen within the space industry.

A big part of working towards the future comes with planning, most of which involve the great minds of the world coming together in one room. However, cancellations of multiple astronomy conferences took events off the table.

Education and research in the field of astronomy have also had a wrench thrown in plans -- not only for those looking to pursue a degree in this field but also for those making great strides in future projects and missions. Everything from networking, in-person meetings, to hands-on training, has quickly turned into a remote/online method.

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As for future missions, NASA officials report that the mission surrounding the James Webb Space Telescope has been put on hold as California follows restrictions to help slow the spread of COVID-19. This telescope will aim to further expand the discoveries of the Hubble Telescope with longer wavelength coverage and improved sensitivity. And this is just one mission. Another revolves around NASA's next Mars mission, a launch that was scheduled this summer to carry the rover, Perseverance.

The concept behind postponing any aircraft-based science flights is that while some tasks can be tackled remotely, building a spacecraft to carry these experiments, cannot.

Down the road, well learn more about the impacts to future science experiments and space exploration, as a whole.

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The Global Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market Anticipated to be $54.71 Billion by 2030

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Key Questions Answered in this Report: What are the major forces that tend to increase the demand for the global deep space exploration and technology during the forecast period, 2020-2030? What are the major challenges inhibiting the growth of the global deep space exploration and technology market? Which are the key players in the global deep space exploration and technology market? What is the estimated revenue generated by the global deep space exploration and technology market by segments (subsystem, technology mode, application, mission type, and end user) in 2020, and what are the estimates for the time period 2020-2030? What are the industry trends in the global deep space exploration and technology market? How is the industry expected to evolve during the forecast period 2020-2030? What are the new strategies adopted by the existing market players to catalyze deep space exploration? What are the major opportunities that the deep space exploration and technology stakeholders foresee?

Global Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market Forecast, 2020-2030

The Global Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market report projects the market to grow at a CAGR of 6.42% on the basis of value during the forecast period from 2020 to 2030. North America is expected to dominate the global deep space exploration and technology market with an estimated share of 62.45% in 2020. North America, including major countries such as the U.S., is the most prominent region for the deep space exploration and technology market. In North America, the U.S. is estimated to account for a major market share in 2020 due to the rising number of space exploration missions led by the country.

The global deep space exploration and technology market is gaining widespread importance owing to increasing efforts from the national space agencies as well as their increasing investment for deep space exploration missions. Development of technologies such as AI and emergence of private entities in the space sector are some of the factors that may propel the market growth.

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"The rising demand for global deep space exploration technologies, namely artificial intelligence, solar electric propulsion, navigation, and guidance technology, for supporting deep space missions is forcing the key stakeholders to develop products with advanced technologies. Moreover, the continuous efforts of the space agencies as well as the leading space companies is expected to drive the market."

Scope of the Global Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market

The purpose of the market analysis is to examine the deep space exploration and technology market outlook in terms of factors driving the market, trends, technological developments, and competitive benchmarking, among others.

The report further takes into consideration the market dynamics and the competitive landscape along with the detailed financial and product contribution of the key players operating in the market.

Market Segmentation

The deep space exploration and technology market is further segmented on the basis of technology mode, application, subsystem, mission type, end user, and region.While highlighting the key driving and restraining forces for this market, the report also provides a detailed study of the industry.

The report also analyzes different applications that include moon exploration, transportation, orbital infrastructure, mars exploration, and others (asteroid missions).In the technology mode segment, the market is segmented into rockets, landers, robots, satellites and, orbiters.

In the subsystem segment, the market is segmented into propulsion system, navigation and guidance system, and command and control system.

The deep space exploration and technology market is segregated by region under four major regions, namely North America, Europe, APAC, and Rest-of-the-World. Data for each of these regions (by country) is provided in the market study.

Key Companies in the Global Deep Space Exploration and Technology Market

The key market players in the global deep space exploration and technology market include Airbus Defence & Space, Lockheed Martin, The Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman, Thales Alenia Space, MAXAR Technologies, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, Astrobotic, and Blue Origin, among others.

Countries Covered North America U.S. Canada Europe The U.K. Germany France Russia Rest-of-Europe Asia-Pacific China Japan India Rest-of-Asia-Pacific Rest-of-the-World Latin America Middle East Africa

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SCIENTISTS from around the world have returned home from Teesside as the latest mine analogue research (MINAR) fortnight came to an end at the ICL Boulby mine.

For the eighth year running the mine played host to researchers from around the globe investigating ways to bring scientists and engineers together in the challenge to prepare for robotic and human exploration of space.

Professor Charles Cockell, is the head of the UK centre for Astrobiology and leader of the MINAR programme at the mine near Saltburn.

He said: All teams were successful in their work and had a highly productive and enjoyable time.

We, and they, are now thinking about future MINAR missions further developing technologies at Boulby of importance both to planetary exploration and applications here on Earth.

This is a unique and important programme of work that only exists with the support of ICL and the STFC Boulby Lab.

We are pleased to have been welcomed here again this year and are looking forward to coming back.

MINAR has run since 2014 and since then has hosted more than 30 teams testing everything from cameras to life detection technologies for NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) space missions as well as educating the next generation of space scientists.

This year pride of place went to the NASA team with a scale model of a Mars Rover being put through its paces alongside a team from Sweden testing the KORE rover, a prototype designed to sniff out gasses and map underground spaces for the exploration of Mars, and for mine safety on earth.

Professor Sean Paling, director and senior scientist at the Boulby Underground laboratory said: We had a number of teams of scientists come for this MINAR event and lots of great work was done. It was great to see the KORE rover operating underground again and testing new payloads. It was also great to see the NASA team again to support their studies of the various rock layers at Boulby, life found underground and the implications of all that means for future studies for life beyond Earth.

Plans are already being drawn up for next years event which will once again be welcomed by ICL Boulby.

Andrew Fulton, ICL UK Vice President and Boulby General Manager, said: Every year these scientists are involved in leading edge research.

Its focus is on space exploration but we are proud that here in east Cleveland this mine provides an unparalleled location for us to understand life on earth in extreme circumstances and what it might tell us about the possibility of life on other planets.

Boulby Mine is a 200-hectare site located just south-east of the village of Boulby, on the north-east coast of the North York Moors in Redcar and Cleveland.

It is run by Cleveland Potash Limited, which is now a subsidiary of Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL).

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It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration... than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

As CEO of The Planetary Society, I would like to share information about how the Society is responding to the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) around the world. Our response focuses on two important priorities:

In making decisions about how the Societys programs and activities proceed, we are above all else guided by the advice of medical and public health professionals.

Our efforts to inspire people around the world with the passion, beauty, and joythe PB&Jof space exploration are more important than ever. Space exploration is an inherently optimistic enterprise that unites science with adventure and promises a better future for all humankind. Thats a welcome message of hope for everyone right now.

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And if you are looking for a real space party, you should check out the Yuris Night 2020 Global Webcast coming up on April 11.

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Effective last week, all Planetary Society public events, including events involving our volunteers, have been canceled or postponed. Likewise, all business travel by staff, volunteers, or board members has been suspended.

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Rick Ambrose

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 companys satellite capabilities as well as the nations upcoming lunar and space exploration missions.

This marks the fifth overall Wash100 Award for Ambrose. Hes also received this honor for the last four consecutive years. Ambrose won a 2019 Wash100 Award for leading the improvement of space technologies, including utilizing the cloud for space missions.

Under Ambroses leadership, Lockheed Martin secured a potential $4.6 billion indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract from NASA in Sept. 2019 to produce six Orion spacecraft to transport astronauts to the moon.

This contract clearly shows NASAs commitment not only to Orion, but also to Artemis and its bold goal of sending humans to the Moon in the next five years, said Ambrose.

The Orion Production and Operations contract includes a $2.7 billion initial order for three spacecraft for Artemis III to V lunar missions and an additional $1.9 billion for three vehicles in fiscal year 2022 to support Artemis VI through VIII missions.

This contract secures Orion production through the next decade, demonstrating NASAs commitment to establishing a sustainable presence at the Moon to bring back new knowledge and prepare for sending astronauts to Mars, NASA Administrator and fellow Wash100 award recipient Jim Bridenstine said in a statement published Tuesday.

In Jan. 2020, Lockheed Martin announced that Pony Express 1, the companys first smart satellite, had launched aboard its Tyvak 6U spacecraft. The upgraded satellite has integrated technology that will allow the company to conduct more thorough tests in-orbit.

"Early on-orbit data show Pony Express 1 is performing its important pathfinding mission very well. Lockheed Martin's HiveStar technology on board will give our customers unparalleled speed, resiliency and flexibility for their changing mission needs by unlocking even greater processing power in space," said Ambrose.

More specifically, Ambrose also had an interview later that month with Yahoo Finance regarding the current challenges of the space market and the upcoming manned lunar mission to return to the moon in the next five years. He believes that we have the capability to complete our current lunar mission, but we have to act quickly and reuse a lot of systems that we have today.

When asked about the national security risks posed by Chinas satellite projects, Ambrose said that, I like to put it in different framing as not a space race, but for space to be viable, it has to be a vibrant marketplace, like any other industry. Theres 75 space-faring nations today. And as we move forward, supply chains, competitors, for it to be vibrant, we have to have that level of competition, he added.

Executive Mosaic congratulates Lockheed Martin and Rick Ambrose for his 2020 Wash100 Award. Ambrose has accumulated a lot of experience across his 40 years in the defense, aerospace and space industries. His latest Wash100 Award win continues to demonstrate the level of vision and success that Ambrose has been able to achieve with the company and for the GovCon sector.

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This year represents our sixth annual Wash100 Award selection. The Wash100 is the premier group of private and public sector leaders selected by Executive Mosaics organizational and editorial leadership as the most influential leaders in the GovCon sector. These leaders demonstrate skills in leadership, innovation, achievement, and vision.

Visit the Wash100 site to learn about the other 99 winners of the 2020 Wash100 Award. On the site, you can submit your 10 votes for the GovCon executives of consequence that you believe will have the most significant impact in 2020.

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