This federal contract, awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., is for the Integrated Cockpit Sensing (ICS) - Award Call 1 Advanced Development for Enhanced Performance Technologies (ADEPT) Advanced Research Announcement (ARA) program. The contract has a ceiling value of $12,774,425 and a completion date of May 21, 2025. It is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract without a set-aside designation.
The ICS program aims to integrate and demonstrate existing sensor technologies and assessment techniques, both government-owned and commercial, to monitor and alert pilots on their physiological state during high-performance aircraft operations. Key focus areas include air quality monitoring, vital signs sensing, flight environment monitoring, respiratory function assessment, data storage and processing, onboard analytics, and pilot alerting. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will leverage its expertise in space systems, sensors, optics, and information technologies to provide systems engineering, modeling, simulation, test, and evaluation services for this research effort. Major subcontractors include Mission Systems Orchard Park Inc. and Dayton T. Brown, Inc., who will supply specialized components and technical services.
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