The Office of Naval Research awarded a $31,840 firm fixed-price purchase order to Altair Engineering Inc. on December 1, 2014, for license renewal services with completion scheduled for November 30, 2015. The contract, which carries no set-aside designation, is structured as a standard renewal of software licensing and maintenance support for Altair's computational engineering tools. Altair Engineering, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, is a global provider of advanced modeling, simulation, optimization, and high-performance computing software solutions that support research and development across federal defense and civilian agencies.
This award reflects the Office of Naval Research's continued reliance on Altair's proprietary software capabilities, including HyperWorks, FEKO, and OptiStruct, to enable sophisticated engineering analysis in areas such as finite element analysis, design optimization, and computational fluid dynamics. As a large business entity with an extensive federal contracting history, Altair has secured over 150 prime awards since 2021 and maintains trusted vendor relationships across multiple Department of Defense organizations, including Naval Sea Systems Command and the Naval Air Warfare Center, as well as civilian agencies such as NASA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The sole-source nature of such license renewal contracts reflects Altair's exclusive provision of specialized software capabilities required by federal research institutions.
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