This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (APL), a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center. The $555,857 contract supports DARPA's SPINEY FISH research program, with a period of performance ending on July 31, 2017. The contract was not set aside for any special designation.
APL is a subsidiary of The Johns Hopkins University, a private research university that has a long history of providing a wide range of goods and services to various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and NASA, through both prime and subcontract awards. This contract award allows APL to leverage its specialized capabilities in areas like defense technology, space science, biomedicine, and other critical national security and scientific domains to support DARPA's research objectives.