This firm fixed price purchase order, valued at $58,723.84, was awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery to Drone Nerds Inc. to deliver two Freefly Astro unmanned aircraft systems. The systems will include Astro bases with landing gear and props, mapping payloads, controllers, vibration isolators, spare parts, four SL8 air batteries, and two SL8 fast chargers as requested in Solicitation...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a $79,370 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Skyfront Corp, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for an 8-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone. This contract was competed as a 100% small business set-aside under NAICS code 336411 (Aircraft Manufacturing). The contract supports USDA ARS mission requirements for surveillance, magnetic surveys, and LiDAR mapping. Skyfront Corp has provided UAVs,...
The Department of the Air Force Global Strike Command awarded a $70,900 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Drone Nerds Inc., a for-profit small business organization based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The contract is for the procurement of drones to be used by security forces. This award appears to be a small business set-aside contract. Drone Nerds Inc. is an experienced federal contractor, having received numerous purchase orders from various government agencies for the provision of...
The Department of the Interior awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order to Drone Nerds Inc., a small business vendor, to provide an IT unmanned aerial system (UAS) camera. The $12,999 contract has an ultimate completion date of October 1, 2023. Drone Nerds Inc., a for-profit organization headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, specializes in the sale of commercial off-the-shelf UAS, sensors, and accessories to government agencies. This award is part of a larger $480,000 Blanket Purchase...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $18,215.00 firm-fixed-price purchase order contract to Sky Flight Robotics Inc., a small disadvantaged business, for the delivery of a DJI Matrice 200 hexacopter drone with a MicaSense Altum sensor kit. This contract supports research programs at the USDA's Dairy Forage Research Center in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, which focus on assessing the economic and environmental performance of crop-dairy livestock systems. The drone and sensor package...
This contract award to Vision Aerial Inc., a small business manufacturer of drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS), is for a high-payload capacity hexacopter seeder drone. The $32,935 firm-fixed price purchase order was issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to support research and development of improved cover crop systems for dairy farms. The seeder drone is required to have a payload capacity of 11 pounds, enabling it to plant a variety of...
This firm-fixed-price purchase order was awarded by the Midwest Area division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) to Caron East, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation. The $26,043.24 contract is for a small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) drone with a custom gimbal mount system, to be used by the ARS Long-Term Agroecosystems Research (LTAR) project and plot-scale research at the Swan Lake Research Farm. The system must meet specific...
This firm-fixed-price federal contract for $13,555 was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Vision Aerial Inc., a small business manufacturer of professional drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) based in Bozeman, Montana. The contract is for the delivery of a small UAS (sUAS or drone) with a custom mount, to be used by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Soil Management Research Unit in Morris, Minnesota. The sUAS will be integrated with existing MicaSense RedEdge...
This federal contract award, valued at $93,385.66, is for an order of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and accessories. The contract was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to the prime contractor, Skydio, Inc., a U.S. drone manufacturer and developer of autonomous flight technologies located in San Mateo, California. The contract has an ultimate completion date of January 30, 2025 and is a firm fixed-price delivery order, with no...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery awarded a $16,205.75 firm fixed price delivery order against Red Hill Ventures LLC's Multiple Award Schedule contract. Red Hill Ventures LLC will provide a Parrot Anafi drone system to support USDA-ARS-FRIID operations in Stoneville, Mississippi. As an unmanned aerial vehicle, the Parrot Anafi drone will allow USDA-ARS-FRIID to conduct agricultural research and monitoring from the...