NASA's Johnson Space Center awarded a delivery order modification to The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), increasing the contract value by approximately $5.5 million from $148.5 million to $154.1 million under the NASA-Wide Specialized Engineering, Evaluation and Test Services (NSEETS) vehicle. The contract, which commenced on October 1, 2020, and extends through September 30, 2028, with a ceiling value of approximately $155.6 million,...
Battelle Memorial Institute, a Columbus, Ohio-based nonprofit research organization, was awarded a $79.8 million definitive contract by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for chemistry services supporting the National Toxicology Program (NTP). This cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, awarded July 23, 2014, with an ultimate completion date of January 24, 2027, represents Option Year 10 (Line Item 63) of an ongoing arrangement and carries no small business set-aside...
Lockheed Martin Corporation Aerostructures received a definitive cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Hypersonic Air-Breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) Phase 2 program, with a ceiling value of $240.7 million and an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2026. This contract represents an extension of a prior effort (CLIN 0009) focused on developing advanced hypersonic air-breathing propulsion technology for potential weapon systems. The...
Lockheed Martin Corporation's Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) division was awarded a definitive cost-plus-incentive contract by the Missile Defense Agency on November 1, 2020, valued at $1.577 billion, with performance completion targeted for December 31, 2027. The contract requires the contractor to provide necessary material and technical engineering to define, develop, integrate, test, deliver, install, and sustain weapon system capability in support of MDA's mission to include regional...
PROJECT IKE, awarded to Two Six Labs LLC (operating as Two Six Technologies) on July 31, 2019, is a $190.2 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract funded by the Washington Headquarters Service of the Department of Defense, with performance in Arlington, Virginia, and completion targeted for September 30, 2027. The contract emerged from the Air Force Research Laboratory's broad agency announcement seeking innovative cybersecurity technologies to achieve cyber superiority and integrate...
The Steel Performance Initiative (SPI) is a CLIN (Contract Line Item Number) addition with no net dollar change awarded by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support to the Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA) on September 23, 2020. Valued at a ceiling of $60 million under a definitive cost-sharing contract, this initiative aims to advance the technical readiness level and manufacturing readiness level of candidate steel structural materials for United States Navy applications. The work is...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was awarded a $23.88 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency on February 19, 2019, to provide builds, research and development, test support, and infrastructure modifications in support of the Hurricane Sweep Program. The work, performed at SwRI's San Antonio, Texas facility and scheduled for completion by February 26, 2024, encompasses research, development, build, and test support of test articles. The contract was...
The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded a definitive cost-plus-no-fee contract to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Clinical Coordinating Center, effective April 1, 2016, with a ceiling value of approximately $60.3 million and an ultimate completion date of January 31, 2021. This non-set-aside contract is performed in Seattle, Washington, and represents the NHLBI's continued investment in the WHI, a landmark longitudinal study...
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) awarded a $34.0 million, five-year cost-no-fee definitive contract to the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating as the Desert Research Institute (DRI), to provide Technical Research, Engineering, and Development Services (TREDS II) in support of the NNSA Nevada Field Office. This sole-source award, announced in August 2021 and executed on May 3, 2022, represents a follow-on to DRI's prior contract and is not set...
Systems & Technology Research LLC has been awarded a $12.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Automated Medical Device Patching (AMDP) program, with completion targeted for December 31, 2025. The contract, awarded on September 29, 2023, supports research and development efforts focused on automated patching solutions for medical devices under ARPA-H's broader initiative to enhance medical device security and...