This is a federal contract award by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to the University of Dayton Research Institute, a private non-profit research organization, for a project titled "Metals Performance and Uncertainty Prediction." The $31,499,999.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is for delivery orders and does not have a set-aside designation, indicating the University of Dayton competed openly as a large, sophisticated research entity.
The contract supports advanced research, development, testing, and engineering services related to areas such as aircraft systems, autonomous technologies, sensor technologies, energetic materials, and environmental research. The University of Dayton has served as both a prime contractor and subcontractor on multiple AFRL contracts and indefinite delivery vehicles (IDVs), demonstrating its technical expertise and capacity to support critical Air Force research priorities.
The contract includes two subcontractors: the University of Virginia, which will provide engineering services, and Johns Hopkins University, which will work on modifying a parametrically homogenized crack model to predict fatigue crack nucleation in Ti-6Al-4V alloy. These subcontractors bring additional specialized expertise to the project, leveraging their strong research capabilities in areas like transportation safety, materials science, and advanced modeling.
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