The Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $8,761,470.00 firm fixed-price contract to Dnarx LLC, a small disadvantaged business, for the Preemptive Expression of Protective Alleles and Response Elements (PREPARE) program. The PREPARE program aims to develop programmable gene modulators for humans that can provide specific, effective, safe, and transient medical countermeasures and prophylaxes to combat chemical, biological, radiological, and/or...
This is a $709,260 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to HRL Laboratories, LLC, a corporate research and development laboratory jointly owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. The contract is for the development of a "revolutionary personalized noninvasive stimulation system" to enhance and restore memory function in humans. This is a follow-on effort to a previous DARPA project on transcranial stimulation. The contract...
Pro-Active Technologies, Inc. was awarded a $774,886 firm fixed price delivery order by the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (NAVAIR) to provide diesel faults upgrade software development services. The contract calls for Pro-Active Technologies to develop upgrades to software used for identifying and resolving diesel engine faults, helping NAVAIR maintain readiness of naval aircraft diesel power systems. Pro-Active will perform the work in Oviedo, Florida...
The federal contract award with ID FA875018C0103 was granted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to HRL Laboratories, LLC, a for-profit research and development company owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. The $8,342,833 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, known as the "SUPER TURING EVOLVING LIFELONG LEARNING ARCHITECTURE (STELLAR)", has a completion date of March 31, 2022 and does not utilize any set-aside designations. The contract aims to develop new...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,566,057.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Systems & Technology Research LLC (STR), a for-profit limited liability company located in Woburn, Massachusetts. The contract's objective is to develop the Mitchell high-level, declarative programming language and compiler, as well as an OpenCL backend targeting DARPA's Software Defined Hardware (SDH) reconfigurable compute fabric. The goal is to enable programmers to...
Xcelerium Inc. was awarded a $1.25 million other transaction agreement by the Department of the Air Force to develop a dynamically reconfigurable scalable array processor in support of the Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II. The prime contractor, Xcelerium, will perform the work in Irvine, California to deliver the requested products and services over the approximately 18-month period from September 2023 through March 2025. No major subcontractors or set aside designations...
This is a $1,402,027.06 Firm Fixed Price STTR Phase II contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Ireprogram, LLC, a small business located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The contract is for the development of a computational biology platform technology for cell conversion and differentiation. The contract was awarded under a total small business set-aside and is the result of a solicitation posted in August 2017. This STTR Phase II award follows a previously awarded...
The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Corporation a $1.9 million delivery order for reprogramming verification and validation system upgrade tools and resources for the United States Reprogramming Laboratory and Naval Integrated Readiness Laboratory. This order is associated with the larger F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program, which is a joint multirole combat aircraft developed for the United States military and partner nations. Lockheed...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a definitive contract valued at approximately $300,000 to Pohang University Of Science And Technology Postech Division of South Korea. The firm fixed price contract is for the development of an ion based 3-terminal device with ideal synapse characteristics for neuromorphic pattern recognition systems in support of Army research and development efforts. Performance will take place in South Korea...
Special Circumstances LLC was awarded a $998,711 other transaction agreement by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform reverse engineering of Boolean functions using constrained symbolic regression. The work will be conducted over an 18-month period ending in May 2022 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. DARPA's REFUSR program seeks to advance techniques for reasoning about and manipulating Boolean formulas to enable new capabilities in software and hardware verification. As an...