The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Leidos Inc., doing business as Saic, an indefinite delivery contract with a ceiling value of $49 million to conduct research on advanced high power electromagnetic source technologies. Under the contract's Advanced High Power Electromagnetic Source Research program, two task orders have been issued totaling $16.5 million to develop technologies including tunable high power oscillators, broadband high power amplifiers, and structures to radiate high power pulses. Performance on the task orders is taking place between 2022 and 2027 at facilities in Herndon, Virginia.
The original 2021 broad agency announcement solicited proposals to research areas such as increasing oscillator bandwidths and developing efficient high power sources over 48 months. The solicitation carried no set-aside designations and sought to address Air Force and Department of Defense requirements for high power electromagnetic technologies in consideration of future mission needs. Awards were to be made through an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract mechanism with an initial $12 million task order, consistent with the two task orders issued to Leidos to develop new high frequency, high power sources and further high power microwave capabilities.
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