This federal contract was awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Georgia TECH Applied Research Corp (GTARC), a non-profit research organization and subsidiary of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The contract, valued at $35,237,673.59, will investigate the extension of swarming autonomy from expendable, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enable heterogeneity across sensor modalities, and super swarm system. The contract was awarded under a broad announcement for...
This is a $84,733,366.00 federal contract awarded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to Georgia TECH Applied Research Corp (GTARC), a non-profit research organization affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The contract is a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type and has a period of performance through January 12, 2028. The contract is to investigate the extension of swarming autonomy from expendable, autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to enable...
This is a $3,636,809.00 federal contract award from the Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research to Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation (GTARC), a non-profit research institution affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology. The contract is for the development of "LOW COST UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS SWARMING TECHNOLOGY", with a performance period ending on August 31, 2020. The contract was awarded on a Cost Plus Fixed Fee basis and did not utilize any set-aside...
This is a $18,501,922 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command to prime contractor RTX BBN Technologies, Inc. (doing business as BBN Technologies) to conduct research in accordance with the statement of work for "Command and Control of Aggregate Swarm Tactics (CCAST)". The contract does not have a set-aside designation. As the prime, BBN Technologies has engaged several subcontractors, including Unmanned Laboratory LLC, Osullivans...
The Department of the Navy Naval Education and Training Command has awarded a $89,962.46 firm-fixed-price purchase order to Quanser Consulting Inc., a for-profit organization, to provide an Autonomous Vehicle Research Studio. This turnkey solution includes QDrone quadrotors, QBot 4e ground vehicles, a ground control station, vision and safety equipment. The studio will support research in intelligent systems, autonomy, artificial intelligence, machine learning, system architecture, and system...
The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command awarded a $2.67 million firm fixed price delivery order to Southwest Research Institute under an unspecified multiple award contract vehicle. The prime contractor will provide various airborne systems in support of Navy information warfare programs. Major subcontractors include Toyon Research Corporation for radome antenna arrays, Vectornav Technologies for a rigged GPS system, Aviatech Corporation for broadband antennas, I.F....
This is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract award to Robotic Research Opco LLC, a leading provider of vehicle autonomy solutions for defense and commercial applications. The $147,408.77 contract, awarded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, is for the development of autonomous navigation capabilities in small, confined spaces. As a prime contractor, Robotic Research Opco LLC has previously received awards from agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security and...
The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded a $959,846 firm fixed price delivery order against the Autonomous Unmanned Systems Teaming and Collaboration master indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The order is for Robotic Research Opco LLC to provide services supporting autonomous unmanned systems teaming and collaboration in GPS-denied environments, as outlined in the original Autonomous Unmanned Systems Teaming and Collaboration...
The Department of the Navy, through the Office of Naval Research, awarded a firm fixed-price purchase order valued at twenty-four thousand seven hundred forty dollars to Georgia Tech Research Corporation for the design and improvement of swarms of light. The contract has no set-aside designation and work is to be completed by December 15, 2023. Performance will take place in Washington, D.C. The Office of Naval Research supports science and technology research that drives innovation for...
This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Aster Labs, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business. The $124,938.00 contract will develop and demonstrate a new approach for real-time relative vehicle localization within a swarm formation, using random finite sets statistics theory to solve the multiple object tracking problem. The work aims to extend estimation and...