This is a $7,921,200.66 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Rocket Lab USA Inc., doing business as Rocket Lab Space Systems, for a "Digital Engineering Approach for Archimedes Engine Development" project. The contract has an ultimate completion date of February 8, 2028. This award is not associated with a set-aside. The work will be performed in Long Beach, California. The contract was awarded under the AFRL Rocket Lab Hermes Broad Agency...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $2,843,680.26 firm-fixed-price definitive contract to Next Offset Solutions, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to advance technologies enabling the predictive design, deployable manufacturing, and quality assessment of additively manufactured solid rocket motors. This contract was awarded under the AFRL Rocket Lab Hermes Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), an unrestricted solicitation that allows for the submission of white papers as...
This is a $1,637,960.55 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) to conduct ROCKET CARGO CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS (CONOPS) CAPABILITY TESTING. The contract has a period of performance through December 31, 2025 and was awarded on December 7, 2020. This contract was competed under the AFRL Rocket Lab Hermes Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), which aims to mature novel rocket propulsion technologies. SpaceX, a...
This is a $1,781,071.45 Firm Fixed Price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Hermeus Corp, a for-profit aerospace manufacturer based in Atlanta, Georgia. The contract is for research, design, and analysis of thermal protection systems and satellite communications radio terminal solutions for hypersonic airborne platforms. This contract work supports the AFRL's STRATEGIC ADVANCEMENTS IN RESILIENT SPACE TECHNOLOGIES FOR...
This federal contract award, valued at $2,838,188.13, was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA), a professional services firm based in Alexandria, Virginia. The award supports the production of compact modular cases for tactical missiles under the HERMES WHITE PAPER #MWP210005 program. This contract is a definitive, firm-fixed-price agreement with a completion date of September 5, 2024. The contract was not set aside for any specific...
This is a $4,895,583.84 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Firehawk Aerospace Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Addison, Texas. The contract is for the development of advanced hybrid rocket engine technologies, leveraging Firehawk's expertise in innovative propulsion systems and 3-dimensional manufacturing techniques. The contract is not set aside and is part of the larger AFRL Rocket Lab Hermes Broad Agency...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $2 million Other Transaction Agreement to Hermeus Corp. to support enabling high-speed mobility with airbreathing high-speed aircraft under the COVID-19 Defense Innovation Board initiative. The prime contractor, Hermeus Corp., will perform work in Atlanta, Georgia from August 2020 through December 2021. The contract has no set-aside designation. The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory is the funding...
Lynntech Inc., doing business as Lynntech Inc., has been awarded a definitive contract valued at approximately $1.8 million by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver the HYBRID-POWERED ENERGY-EFFICIENT RUGGLED MODULE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEILLANCE (HERMES) under a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract. Work will be performed in College Station, Texas through December 2025. The firm fixed price contract is set aside for total small businesses. The Air Force...
Helicon Chemical Company LLC, doing business as Helicon Chemical Company, has been awarded a $728,940 firm fixed price purchase order contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory. The award is for research and development under the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II solicitation to develop a composite binder enabling higher propellant loading and performance for extended range and reduced mass missile propulsion. As a small disadvantaged...
This is a $17,685,710 cost plus fixed fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Cubic Defense Applications, Inc. CMS Secure Comms Division, doing business as CMS Secure Comms, for the development of HALO-Enabled Resilient Mesh (HERMES) technologies. This contract is not set aside and runs through February 3, 2027. The HERMES contract is part of AFRL's broader Next-generation Airborne Directional Networking research and development efforts, which seek to improve...