This federal contract award was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a defense agency, to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a non-profit research organization, for $625,002.00 on a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with a completion date of December 31, 2017. The contract is not designated as a set-aside. The contract involves WHOI providing a range of oceanographic research, data collection and analysis, and technology development services to...
This is a $2,999,870.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (Draper) on October 15, 2018. The contract is for research in accordance with the Statement of Work (SOW) titled "The Sea Whisperer: A Co-Adaptive Self-Learning Ocean Data Framework" under DARPA's Ocean of Things program. This program aims to develop affordable ocean sensing capabilities at large scales to improve maritime...
This is a $1,742,031.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command to RTX BBN Technologies, Inc. to provide support for DARPA's research and development efforts on novel system architectures that integrate military data networks with rapidly deployable temporary undersea networks. The contract has no set-aside designation. The prime contractor, RTX BBN Technologies, is a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies that specializes in advanced technology...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the prime contractor Applied Physical Sciences Corp. The contract has a ceiling value of $36,012,466.59 and is for research and development services in accordance with the statement of work. The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. Major subcontractors include Geospectrum Technologies Incorporated, Astro Machine Works Inc., Greatbatch LTD, Teledyne...
This is a $9,693,289.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a non-profit research organization. The contract is for autonomous systems and communications research and development, with a period of performance through August 3, 2025. WHOI is a leading oceanographic institution that frequently supports the U.S. government through federal contracts and grants, including work for the Navy, NOAA, and...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Defense Contract Management Agency to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a private non-profit research organization, to develop underwater acoustic communications hardware. The $49,960 contract is intended to maximize the efficiency and optimize the reception of undersea assets for selected government-furnished equipment (GFE) platforms. The work will take place in Woburn, Massachusetts, with a completion date of January 25,...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a private non-profit research organization. The $882,549.00 contract requires WHOI to develop and test underwater acoustic and optical communications software and hardware to improve link efficiency and optimize reception of undersea assets. This work supports NAVSEA's requirements in this domain. The contract does not have a set-aside...
This federal contract award, identified as HR001120C0116, was made by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., doing business as Draper. The $636,772.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for the "UNDERSEE STUDY" project, which aims to develop a collection of rapidly deployable and collaborative unmanned underwater vehicles to solve a variety of DoD problems. The contract has an ultimate completion date of December 18, 2020 and...
This federal contract award, valued at $4,333,869.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Arete Associates for the design, development, and manufacture of low-cost, persistent maritime floats that sense and report relevant data from the physical and operational environment. The contract is a definitive contract with a cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing type. There was no set-aside designation used. Arete Associates is an advanced science and engineering company that...
This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a non-profit research organization, for the WHOI UUV Detection Demonstration project. The $188,000.00 contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, was awarded on March 31, 2016 with a completion date of December 31, 2017. WHOI is a leading oceanographic institution that frequently supports the U.S. government through federal...