The USDA Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Northeast Area awarded a $40,044 firm fixed price purchase order to Aero Systems West, Inc. for a Precision Drone for Fertilizer Application. Per the solicitation, the drone must be delivered to East Wareham, Massachusetts and comply with the October 2022 Buy American Certificate. Aero Systems West will provide the requested Precision Drone for Fertilizer Application to support the USDA ARS's research...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $35,650 firm fixed price purchase order to Inspired Flight Technologies, Inc. for an unmanned aerial system. The contract has a period of performance from July 21, 2023 to September 21, 2023 and is set aside for total small business. Inspired Flight Technologies will provide an unmanned aerial system to support the USDA ARS AATRU's research requirements. The...
The Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery awarded a $275,000 firm fixed price purchase order to Precisionhawk, Inc. of Raleigh, North Carolina. Under this total small business set-aside contract, Precisionhawk will provide a hyperspectral sensor and drone package integrated on an Alta X unmanned aerial vehicle to the USDA Agricultural Research Service Southeast Watershed Research Unit in Tifton, Georgia. The 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 Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $29,145.70 firm fixed price purchase order to Vision Aerial Inc. to provide a tricopter drone with multispectral and visual sensors. Per the original solicitation, the contractor will supply and deliver the drone to Sidney, Montana, equipped as specified. The solicitation sought quotes for a tricopter drone to support USDA ARS research programs in the Plains...
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...
This is a firm-fixed-price purchase order for $34,241.00 awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to Sky Flight Robotics Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business. The contract is for a drone with multispectral imager and camera to be used by ARS researchers to monitor barley crops and evaluate traits related to abiotic stress tolerance and malt quality. The original solicitation was a sources sought notice to determine availability of small...
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...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS) awarded a firm-fixed-price purchase order contract worth $396,895.00 to Hyspex Inc., a foreign-owned, for-profit company, for the delivery of a Fully Integrated Hyperspectral, LiDAR, and Thermal Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). This contract has a set-aside designation for a small business. Hyspex Inc. is an experienced provider of advanced spectral imaging technology, having previously delivered hyperspectral imaging...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service Field Research Implementation and Information Delivery Plains Area awarded a $18,200 delivery order contract to Federal Security Systems, Inc. for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system. The prime contractor, Federal Security Systems, will provide the UAV and any associated equipment and services under the terms of this firm fixed price contract. Performance will take place in North River, North Dakota and span from June 21,...