This is a federal contract award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to the University of Florida's Division of Sponsored Research. The $239,368.00 contract is for the development of a hardware-in-the-loop simulator and does not have a set-aside designation. As a public land-grant research university, the University of Florida frequently serves as a prime contractor and subcontractor on research and development projects for various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This contract is part of the University of Florida's broader portfolio of federal research contracts and grants, which have supported work in areas such as agricultural technologies, biomedicine, aerospace, and more.