Delivery Order FA865014D2406-0002

The U.S. Army Contracting Command-Redstone Modernization Directorate awarded a no-cost extension delivery order to Piasecki Aircraft Corp for the Adaptive Digital Automated Pilotage Technology (ADAPT) Flight Control Demonstration program. This contract, with a ceiling value of $38.8 million and a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing structure, extends the ultimate completion date to July 31, 2026. The work will be performed in Essington, Pennsylvania, and is funded by the Army's Research, Development and...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded AVX Aircraft Company a $1,050,299 definitive contract to conduct an Adaptive Resilient Engineered Structures trade study. The solicitation sought proposals to identify and evaluate advanced aircraft structures technologies to enhance performance, efficiency, versatility, reliability and availability for Future Vertical Lift platforms. AVX will perform the initial 13-month trade study phase in...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $12.4 million definitive contract to Georgia Tech Research Corporation for the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors program. The objective of this program is to design, build, and flight test an experimental aircraft incorporating active flow control technologies to achieve quantifiable performance improvements. Metacomp Technologies was selected as a subcontractor to provide certain engineering efforts. Funding comes from...

This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc. (doing business as Advanced Technology Inc.), a small business. The $149,994.98 firm-fixed-price contract is for the development of a "Finite State Inflow Model Augmented with Viscous Vortex Particle Method for Advanced Rotorcraft Configurations." This research and development effort aims to create...

The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (DOT FAA) awarded a $957,239.74 firm-fixed-price contract to Adaptive Aerospace Group Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, to develop and evaluate fly-by-wire direct flight path command systems for general aviation (GA) aircraft. The research will be conducted in ground-based simulators and prepare for in-flight evaluations in a variable stability GA aircraft. The main output will be suggested methods of compliance for...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $3 million Other Transaction Agreement to Robotic Services Inc., doing business as Aerial Applications, to develop and deliver a bundled unmanned aerial vehicle hardware system with analytics software. The system will utilize photogrammetry and vegetative analysis tools to support environmental management activities. A key component is VAST, an artificial intelligence search engine for analyzing physical data captured...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded an other transaction agreement valued at approximately $1 million to Systems & Technology Research LLC, doing business as STR, to prototype collaborative tactical autonomy for networked aircraft. This effort will provide for the development of technologies enabling cooperative control and decision-making across multiple unmanned air systems. Performance will take place in Woburn, Massachusetts over a period of...

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $1.25 million firm fixed price purchase order to Tidal Flight, Inc., a small business, for the development of a hybrid-electric amphibious aircraft designed to enable runway-independent operations in agile combat employment scenarios. The contract, designated as a Total Small Business set aside, was awarded on August 20, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of March 8, 2027. Work will be performed in Suffolk, Virginia. This initiative aligns...

Advanced Technology Inc. was awarded a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract valued at approximately $1.1 million by the U.S. Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command. The Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award will support Advanced Technology's continued research and development of a physics-based unified unmanned aerial vehicle design and analysis tool under SBIR Topic A19-019. As a total small business set-aside, the 27-month effort will be performed...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $974,147 Other Transaction Agreement to L3 Technologies, Inc. Comcept Division for the prototyping of collaborative tactical autonomy for networked aircraft. As the prime contractor, L3 Technologies Comcept Division will deliver prototypes to support the Air Force's efforts to advance collaborative autonomy technologies for unmanned aircraft systems. The single award, firm-fixed price contract has a period of...