Lockheed Martin Corporation has been awarded an $18.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design, build, and flight test an experimental aircraft for the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. The contract is being performed in White Settlement, Texas from June 2020 through February 2023. The CRANE program seeks proposals to design, build, and flight test an X-plane that incorporates active...
This federal contract award, valued at $6,941,432.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Georgia TECH Applied Research Corp (GTARC), a non-profit research organization affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, is for the Air Combat Experimentation (ACE) Technical Area 1 (TA1) program, which seeks to develop autonomous aerial combat maneuvering algorithms to increase warfighter trust in combat...
This is a $94,372,238.00 definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company, for the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. The contract is for Phases 2 and 3, building on earlier Phase 0 and 1 efforts. CRANE aims to design, build, and flight test an experimental aircraft incorporating active flow control technologies. The original...
This federal contract award to Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company, is for the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) Program Phase 0 and 1 with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The $28,368,394.00 award will fund the design, build, and test of an experimental X-plane that incorporates active flow control as the primary design consideration. This work aligns with DARPA's objectives to advance innovative aerospace...
This federal contract award was made by the Air Force to Georgia TECH Applied Research Corp (GTARC), a non-profit research organization affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The $447,835 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract is for the development of "SWARMING COLLABORATIVE RECONNAISSANCE ELECTRONIC EFFECTS MUNITIONS." This contract is part of a larger Air Force Materiel Command indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract vehicle called the Advanced...
This is a $910,000.00 definitive, cost-no-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education. The contract is for applied research, advanced technology development, platform demonstrations, or systems studies to redefine future warfighting across air, ground, maritime, and space domains through revolutionary system architectures. The contract stems from...
This is a $1,418,165.33 Phase II SBIR contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Creare LLC, a small business contractor, for the development of a low-cost, miniaturized control system for autonomous flight. The contract is focused on completing research and engineering work for this specialized aerospace technology. Creare has subcontracted with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a private non-profit university, to assist with sensor data collection,...
This is a $3,636,809.00 federal contract award from the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research to Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation (GTARC), a non-profit research institution affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The contract is for the development of "LOW COST UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS SWARMING TECHNOLOGY", with a performance period ending on August 31, 2020. The contract was awarded on a Cost Plus Fixed Fee basis and did not utilize any set-aside...
This federal contract award to Lockheed Martin Corporation under the Phase 3 Aero-Adaptive/Aero-Optic Beam Control (ABC) program will conduct a full-scale flight test of an active flow control turret mounted on a business-class size jet. The $10,220,644.68 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), will validate the turret requirements, design, and predicted performance that were completed in Phase 2 using a scaled turret and flow control...
This is a federal contract award to Georgia TECH Applied Research Corp (GTARC), a non-profit research organization affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology, by the U.S. Air Force. The contract is for "SWARMING COLLABORATIVE RECONNAISSANCE ELECTRONIC EFFECTS MUNITIONS" and has a ceiling value of $449,843. The contract type is Delivery Order with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing model, and the ultimate completion date is March 23, 2026. The contract is not associated with any...