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 $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 federal contract award is for the BLACKJACK PROGRAM PHASES 2 AND 3, an architecture demonstration intended to show the high military utility of global low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations and mesh networks of smaller, lighter weight spacecraft nodes. The contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Seakr Engineering, LLC, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies), for $145,984,535.00. There was no set-aside designation for this...
This is a $3,794,083.00 Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Telesat Canada, a for-profit satellite operator based in Ottawa, Canada. The contract is for Phase 1 of DARPA's BLACKJACK program, which aims to develop and demonstrate a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation to provide global persistent coverage. There is no set-aside designation for this award. Telesat Canada has previously supported federal agencies, including the...
This federal contract award, valued at $27,509,944.95, was issued by the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to Parsons Government Services Inc. as the prime contractor. The contract is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Definitive Contract for a "Commercial Augmentation Service" under the SBIR Program Phase III. The contract is set aside for total small businesses and has an ultimate completion date of July 25, 2024. The contract involves the delivery of a range of products and services,...
This federal contract award, valued at $75,000, was issued by the Office of the Secretary of Defense to Parsons Government Services Inc., a subsidiary of Parsons Corporation. The contract is for services related to a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, including satellite operations, virtualization, constellation management, and hosted payload support. This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract, with a firm fixed price structure. Parsons Government Services...
This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $84,447,971.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Systems & Technology Research LLC (STR), a for-profit limited liability company based in Woburn, Massachusetts. The contract supports the BLACKJACK PROGRAM PHASE 2 AND 3, which is an architecture demonstration intended to show the high military utility of global low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellations and mesh networks of smaller, lighter, and less...
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 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...
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...