This indefinite delivery contract (IDC) was awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a defense agency, to Urban Sky Theory Inc., a for-profit manufacturing company. The $99,000,000 contract was awarded on November 15, 2024 under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase III, with a period of performance through November 14, 2029.
The contract aims to procure microballoons to support the Department of Defense's efforts. Urban Sky Theory will provide a range of stratospheric balloon technologies and services, including ultra-long-duration super pressure microballoons for reconnaissance, establishing production capabilities for approximately 1,000 stratospheric surveillance microballoons per month, advancing guided descent and navigation systems, enhancing trajectory modeling, and developing low-cost mesh networking solutions. This work complements the company's prior contract and grant awards from the DoD and NASA focused on stratospheric balloon capabilities for reconnaissance, surveillance, intelligence gathering, environmental monitoring, and wildfire detection.
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