This is a $1,294,861.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Southampton, a non-profit organization located in the United Kingdom. The contract supports research and development for DARPA's Defense Sciences Office, with the overall goal of exploiting emerging developments in toroidal electrodynamics to develop novel spectroscopic tools and information/energy transfer schemes. This contract was awarded under a...
This federal contract award, valued at $4,188,492.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct research on "VENICE: VErifyiNg Implicit Cultural modEls." The base award period runs from January 15, 2021 through October 14, 2024. Under this definitive cost-no-fee contract, USC will lead the research effort, with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Cordillera Applications Group Inc....
This is a $7,213,748.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a non-profit research and development organization. The contract is for a DARPA research program with a completion date of May 15, 2026. No set-aside was used. Draper has subcontracted with Cbset, Inc., a non-profit preclinical contract research organization, and Mriglobal, a not-for-profit research organization,...
This is a $5,565,210.00 federal research and development contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Leidos Inc. The contract is a definitive contract with a cost-no-fee pricing type and was awarded on November 2, 2017, with a completion date of August 31, 2019. The contract did not have a set-aside designation. As the prime contractor, Leidos has leveraged its expertise in areas like systems integration, cybersecurity, and advanced research and development to...
This is a $793,583 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Pacific Defense Strategies Inc., a for-profit limited liability company. The contract is for the VENICE SF program and does not have a set-aside designation. Pacific Defense Strategies Inc. is a technology company that specializes in delivering military electromagnetic spectrum solutions, including radar systems, software-defined radios, and other defense-related products and...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,886,388.24, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a prominent non-profit research and development organization. The contract, titled "Integrated System to Instigate and Assess Threat Risk (INSTIGATR)," supports the development of technologies to improve threat discrimination and filtering in complex urban environments. This effort aligns with DARPA's Urban...
This is a $1,104,805.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper), a non-profit research and development organization. The contract, titled "DSO STUDY FOR SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS," was awarded under a Broad Agency Announcement seeking innovative research proposals across four technical thrust areas, including frontiers in math, computation and design; limits of sensing and...
This is a federal research contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian aerospace company Leonardo SPA. The $12,982,789.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded on August 4, 2016, is for a DARPA research project with an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2021. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating it was open competition. Key subcontractors include Skywater Technology...
This is a $1,285,014 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom. The contract is for the "NASCENT LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS (NLM)" project, which aims to develop a predictive model of how quantized inertia couples light (Unruh waves) to matter, and to demonstrate thrust that can be scaled up as the model predicts. This effort is intended to dramatically enhance the ability to fly,...
This is a federal contract award to Vanderbilt University by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the "Assurance-Based Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems (ALC)" program. The $9,917,853.00 definitive contract is a cost-no-fee arrangement with a performance period through March 31, 2026. Vanderbilt University, a prestigious private research institution, is the prime contractor for this unset-aside award. The contract supports critical national priorities in...