The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) holds an Other Transaction (OT) Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) valued at $5,310,136.00. This IDV supports the development of a "domain-agnostic system with robust features and symbolic reasoning" focused on synthetic quantum nanostructures and potential defense applications. The initial task order under this IDV is valued at $709,071, demonstrating UMD's capability to...
The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), a prominent U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college, has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) by the Office of the Secretary of Defense with a ceiling value of $500,000,000. The contract is for research and development services in human, culture, and social systems, data, and emerging technology for intelligence and security, as well as research into intelligence and security challenges. Under this IDC, UMD has...
The Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) contract with the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was awarded to George Mason University (GMU) to enable the procurement of University Programs services under the PHASE IX BOAS program. The $40.2M single-award contract has a period of performance through September 2028. As a prominent academic institution, GMU will provide a broad range of research, technology development, educational services, and technical...
The University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), a state-controlled institution of higher learning, has been awarded a single award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) with a ceiling value of $257,000,000. This IDC supports a range of research, engineering, technology development, testing, analysis, training, and other professional services for OSD. Through various delivery orders under this IDC, UMD will provide services in areas such as decision...
The federal contract IDV award is a $709,071 Other Transaction (OT) Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). The contract focuses on the development of "synthetic quantum nanostructures (SYNQUANON)" with the aim of enhancing superconductivity. As a flexible research approach, the IDV allows UMD to pursue innovative projects across multiple technical domains, leveraging...
The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate awarded a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to George Mason University (GMU), a large public research university in Fairfax, Virginia. The BOA, valued at $0, has a performance period through September 2023 and is intended to initiate Phase IV of DHS's two new BOAs for a 5-year period, one each for the Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis (CINA) Center of Excellence led by GMU and the Center for...
This Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) was awarded by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to Texas A&M University, a public land-grant research university. The 5-year BOA, valued at up to $45,000,000, allows DHS to issue delivery orders for research and development services related to border security. Through this indefinite delivery vehicle (IDV), Texas A&M University's Center for Borders, Trade, and Immigration (CBTS) will provide...
The Other Transaction Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract HR00112090132 was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on September 28, 2020. The $1,965,253 contract supports research into optimization-based methods for reverse engineering of black-box adversarial attacks. As a prime contractor, UMD will conduct basic research at the nanoscale to develop new quantum materials and devices with potential national...
This Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) was awarded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate to Northeastern University, a private research university. The BOA has a ceiling value of $84,000,000 and covers a range of research and development services related to the Directorate's Phase VII focus areas, including explosives detection, border security, critical infrastructure resilience, and coastal resilience. Under this IDV, multiple task orders have been issued...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate awarded a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), a public research university, with a $45 million ceiling value and a period of performance through March 2026. Under this BOA, DHS can issue task orders for UNO to provide research, analysis, and program support services across homeland security and national security domains. Key task orders awarded under this BOA include:...