Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp., Atlanta, Georgia, is awarded a $35,237,674 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the effort titled “Heterogeneous Autonomy Prototyping Evolution.” This contract provides for the investigation of heterogeneity across the swarm and super swarm systems.
Heterogeneity in multiple sensor modalities will allow for more robust target detection and confidence, and allow for combination of swarm payload variants to achieve the goals of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and targeting missions. The investigation will also consider how this architecture can work with other autonomy architectures seamlessly to combine for instance heterogeneity in platforms and heterogeneity across domains.
Work will be performed in Atlanta, Georgia, with an expected completion date of Jan. 12, 2025. The maximum dollar value, including a 36-month base period and 22 concurrent/sequential option periods, is $35,237,674. Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,000,000 are obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
This contract was competitively procured under the Office of Naval Research long range broad agency announcement (BAA). Since proposals are received throughout the year under the long range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown.
The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-22-C-1030).
Source: DOD