Other Transaction Agreement W911NF2590014
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- This is a $180,000 Other Transaction Agreement contract awarded by the Department of the Army to The University of Edinburgh, a prestigious international research institution based in Scotland. The contract is for a project titled "Understanding the Enhanced Properties of Amorphous Energetic Materials", which aims to improve the safe operating conditions of energetic materials by minimizing the risk of accidental initiation and altering physical properties that affect formulation...
- This federal contract award is for the development of a Muon-Enhanced Positioning System for subterranean applications. The contract, valued at $105,400.00, was awarded to Geoptic Infrastructure Investigations Limited, a for-profit organization based in the United Kingdom. The contract was awarded by the Department of the Army, a defense agency, under an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) contract type with other pricing. The work is to be performed in Great Britain, United Kingdom, with a...
- This federal contract award, W911QY15C0053, was issued by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to the Regents of the University of Michigan, a prominent U.S. state government-owned educational institution located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The $3,143,403.33 definitive contract, with a period of performance through October 31, 2021, does not have a set-aside designation. The contract supports unspecified "other function" work, with two key subcontractors...
- This is a federal contract award to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology, a private research university located in Hoboken, New Jersey. The contract, valued at $503,824.70, is for the development of micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) under a cost-plus-fixed-fee arrangement. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Army Contracting Command - Picatinny, a defense agency, and does not have a small business set-aside designation. Stevens Institute of Technology is a...
- This contract award for $421,032 was made by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) to the University of Sheffield, doing business as The Digital Humanities Institute, a foreign government entity located in the United Kingdom. The award is for the "Development of Enhanced Fast-Running Methods for Blast Load and Structural Response Predictions for the ERDC GSL", and was issued under ERDC's Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) 21-0037A, which...
- This is a $1,547,849.22 Firm Fixed Price contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Inertialwave, Inc., a small business manufacturer of inertial position tracking systems and related applications. The contract is for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Bridge Option and Phase II development of a navigation-grade Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS) accelerometer. This award builds on Inertialwave's prior SBIR research and...
- This is a $185,383 firm-fixed price purchase order contract awarded by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers National Capitol Region Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity to the University of Manchester, a private university located in Manchester, England. The contract was awarded on March 2, 2020 with a completion date of March 1, 2022. There was no set-aside designation for this award. The original contract opportunity was a pre-solicitation issued by the Department of Defense...
- The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2,405,003.00 grant to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to mature a superconducting gravity gradiometer (SGG) that measures all six components of the gravity gradient tensor for future planetary missions. This grant is not associated with a set-aside designation. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college, has a broad portfolio of federal contracts and grants supporting research...
- The U.S. Department of the Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) awarded a $479,992.00 cost-type definitive contract to the Regents of the University of Michigan (University of Michigan) for the development of a "BIO-INSPIRED TERRESTRIAL MICRO-ROBOT". The contract, which did not have a set-aside designation, has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2010. The University of Michigan, a top public research university, has a history of providing research and...
- This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech) to develop and test new algorithms for processing data from handheld explosive hazard sensors. The contract, valued at $1,889,149.00, has a period of performance through September 30, 2016 and does not have a set-aside designation. Michigan Tech, a public research university with expertise in science, technology,...
The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command awarded a $46,000 Other Transaction Agreement to the University of Glasgow Court for the development of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) gravitators. The contract, awarded on September 15, 2025, is scheduled for completion by February 14, 2026, with performance taking place in Glasgow, United Kingdom. This award represents a non-competitive procurement mechanism that allows the Army to engage innovative research institutions outside traditional contracting frameworks, enabling rapid prototyping and development of advanced technologies with potential defense applications. The University of Glasgow, a prominent research institution, was selected based on its demonstrated expertise in cutting-edge technological research and development. No set-aside designation was applied to this contract. As a higher education research institution with substantial federal grant experience across multiple defense agencies, the university brings specialized capabilities in advanced scientific and technological innovation. The relatively modest contract ceiling value and compressed performance timeline suggest this effort focuses on proof-of-concept or preliminary development activities for MEMS-based gravitational sensing or measurement technology, which could support military applications in positioning, navigation, or inertial measurement systems.
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