The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Raytheon Company a $2.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to develop extreme power, broadband amplifiers and agile waveform techniques through its Waveform Agile RF Directed Energy (WARDEN) program. The goal of the WARDEN program is to extend the range of high power microwave back-door attacks against electronics by ten times the current capability. Raytheon will perform work at its Tucson, Arizona facility from September 2021...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $6,973,290.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc. to support the Waveform Agile Radio-frequency Directed Energy (WARDEN) program. The goal of WARDEN is to extend the range of high power microwave back-door attack capabilities by a factor of 10 beyond the current state-of-the-art. Under this definitive contract, BAE Systems will perform research and development to create...
This is a $6,606,391.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Raytheon Company for the Wideband Adaptive RF Protection (WARP) program. The contract has a completion date of February 23, 2026 and does not have a set-aside designation. The WARP program aims to develop wideband, adaptive radio frequency (RF) filters and cancellation circuits that can selectively attenuate interference to enable the use of software-defined radios in...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Raytheon Company's Advanced Products & Solutions division to develop wideband adaptive radio frequency (RF) filters and cancellation circuits under the Wideband Adaptive RF Protection (WARP) program. The $4,326,030.00 contract, which has no set-aside designation, aims to enable the use of software-defined radios in congested electromagnetic environments by providing adaptive filtering and...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $7.4 million definitive contract to Raytheon Company RMD Division for the Waveform Agile RF Directed Energy program. The goal of this program is to develop extreme power, broadband amplifiers and agile waveform techniques to extend the range of high power microwave back-door attacks against electronics by ten times the current capability. Raytheon will perform the work in Tucson, Arizona from September 2021 through September 2025. One...
This is a $4,974,323 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to XL Scientific LLC, doing business as Verus Research, a small business technology company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The contract supports DARPA's Waveform Agile Radio-frequency Directed Energy (WARDEN) program, which aims to extend the range of high-power microwave (HPM) back-door attacks on electronics by a factor of 10 beyond the current state-of-the-art. Verus Research will...
This is a $13,174,479.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Microwave Power Products, Inc., doing business as CPI International, for the development and demonstration of a new class of compact, high-power, and wide-bandwidth millimeter wave vacuum electron devices capable of linear amplification. This contract, known as the High Power Amplifier using Vacuum Electronics for Overmatched Capability (HAVOC) program, is focused on...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $2.5 million firm fixed price contract to Colorado Power Electronics, Inc. for research and development of an Ultra-Compact Power Conditioning System for High Power RF Transmitters. The contract is being performed by Colorado Power Electronics' Fort Collins, Colorado division under Phase II of the Small Business Innovation Research program. DARPA will utilize the research to advance compact power systems supporting its work developing...
This is a $5,249,233.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory to L3 Technologies, Inc. for the Wideband Adaptive RF Protection (WARP) program. The contract has no set-aside designation. Under this award, L3 Technologies and its subcontractors Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Cornell University, and Arizona State University will develop wideband adaptive radio frequency filters and cancellation circuits to enable the use of software-defined...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,503,403.00, was granted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the small business contractor Tech-X Corporation. The contract is for the "INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR HIGH POWER AMPLIFICATION AT THZ FREQUENCIES" project, which is focused on direct-to-Phase Two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) research and development. The prime contractor, Tech-X Corporation, has subcontracted a portion of the work to Michigan State...