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Representatives of NASA and the Department of Energy met in Florida ahead of the 2020-07-30 launch of NASA’s 2020-03-01 mission.
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators have powered missions such as NASA’s Mars 2020 mission through DOE–NASA cooperation on space nuclear power.
NASA and DOE plan to release a request for proposals in late September or early October 2020 for the first phase of the Fission Surface Power effort.
NASA and the Department of Energy will seek industry proposals later in 2020 for the development of a compact nuclear power system to support long-term lunar and Martian exploration plans.
DOE issued a request for information for the Fission Surface Power effort in July 2020 to solicit industry ideas on developing the power system.
NASA and DOE have been collaborating on a space nuclear power project called Kilopower, which demonstrated a one-kilowatt reactor at the Nevada Test Site in 2018 using highly enriched uranium.
DOE will lead the procurement in cooperation with NASA and will issue a formal request for proposals by early October 2020.
The Fiscal Year 2021 NDAA authorizes $25,900,000,000 for Department of Energy national security programs.
Participants in the 2020-05-04-7 conference workshop included officials from the Defense Innovation Unit, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the U.S. Space Force, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Space Council, NASA, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, academia, and the private sector.
The Department of Energy has about $18,000,000,000 per year in R&D spending.
Descartes Labs was spun off from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2014 and is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Department of Energy is developing technology to build an entangled quantum network connection to the International Space Station.
The Department of Energy funds some astronomy research and is supporting development of an instrument for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile that will be the largest digital camera built for astronomical applications.
The Department of Energy is establishing the first entangled quantum network with sites in Chicago and New York.
The Department of Energy’s annual R&D spending is about $18,000,000,000.
The president’s proposed national defense budget for 2020 totals $750 billion, including $718,000,000,000 for the Department of Defense and $32,000,000,000 for national security programs performed by the Department of Energy’s nuclear laboratories and other agencies.
Of the $750,000,000,000 defense request, $718,000,000,000 is for the Department of Defense and $32,000,000,000 is for national security programs performed by the Department of Energy’s nuclear laboratories and other agencies.
Section 1603 would require the secretary of defense to hire a federally funded research and development center to assess which department or departments should assume the authorities of section 2274 of Title 10.