This is a $1,868,175.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Electronic Systems Division, for the BLACKJACK PROGRAM, PHASE 1 - TRACK A, PAYLOAD. The contract aims to develop and demonstrate a low-Earth orbit constellation that provides global persistent coverage. This definitive contract, awarded on March 11, 2019, has a completion date of June 30, 2020 and was not set aside for any specific...
This is a $127,485,376.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Blue Canyon Technologies LLC for Phases 2 and 3 of the BLACKJACK program. The BLACKJACK program aims to demonstrate the high military utility of global low-earth-orbit (LEO) constellations and mesh networks of lower size, weight, and cost spacecraft nodes. No set-aside was used for this contract. Blue Canyon Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon...
This $3,990,280.00 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Airbus US Space & Defense Inc. to develop and demonstrate a low Earth orbit constellation that provides global persistent coverage under the Blackjack program. The contract has no set-aside designation and was competed on an unrestricted basis. Airbus US Space & Defense Inc. is the prime contractor and has received prior awards from the U.S. Coast Guard and Department of...
This is a $43,275,770.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to L3Harris Technologies, Inc. in Palm Bay, Florida. The contract is for research and development work related to a DARPA research project, with a performance period ending on May 1, 2018. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating that L3Harris Technologies competes as a large business. Major subcontractors on this contract include W.L. Gore &...
This is a $118,523,855.33 federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Lockheed Martin Corp. for the Blackjack Satellite Integration program. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with a completion date of December 22, 2024. It does not have a set-aside designation. The contract involves the integration of multiple military payloads onto commodity satellite buses to create a proliferated low Earth orbit constellation providing global...
This federal contract award, valued at $4,096,368.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Raytheon Company, a major global aerospace and defense contractor, for the BLACKJACK PHASE 1 program. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type, and the ultimate completion date is June 30, 2020. The BLACKJACK program aims to develop and demonstrate a low Earth orbit constellation that provides global persistent coverage. As a prime...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $2,696,785.00 Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract to Systems & Technology Research LLC (STR), a for-profit limited liability company, for the BLACKJACK program. BLACKJACK aims to develop and demonstrate a low Earth orbit constellation that provides global persistent coverage. This contract is part of the BLACKJACK - TRACK A - PAYLOAD effort, which is selecting payload performers from two to six mission areas to complete preliminary and...
This contract, awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is for the development of a position, timing, and navigation payload for a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation that provides global persistent coverage, known as the BLACKJACK program. The $13,315,787.00 Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type was awarded on April 30, 2021 to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation. The contract has an ultimate...
This $182,017,929.05 Other Transaction Agreement was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Telesat U.S. Services LLC, a foreign-owned, for-profit provider of global satellite services. The goal of the "Blackjack" program under this contract is to develop and demonstrate critical technical elements for building a global high-speed network backbone in low Earth orbit to support Department of Defense missions. This contract is not a set-aside and has a period...
This is a federal contract award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Parsons Government Services Inc., a subsidiary of Parsons Corporation, for a SBIR Phase III "BLACKJACK PROTOTYPE GROUND OPERATIONS CENTER" with a ceiling value of $18,379,281.00. The contract is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee definitive contract with an ultimate completion date of October 21, 2025. No set-aside designation was used for this award. Parsons Government Services Inc. is the prime...