This federal contract award to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a not-for-profit research and development organization, has an award value of $953,523.00. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type, awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a defense agency.
The contract, titled "BLUE MONKEY," does not have a set-aside designation. Draper has a history of serving as both a prime contractor and subcontractor on major federal contracts and grants, particularly in areas such as strategic weapons systems, space technology, and advanced research initiatives. The contract award demonstrates Draper's specialized engineering, scientific, and technical capabilities across domains like guidance, navigation, control systems, sensors, autonomous systems, and microfluidics.
Draper holds several Indefinite Delivery Vehicles (IDVs) with federal agencies, including a $982.1 million Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems IDV with the Naval Sea Systems Command and a $49 million IDV with NASA's Johnson Space Center for advanced guidance, navigation, and control technology development. These IDVs allow agencies to quickly access Draper's specialized services for specific task orders.