Assured Information Security Inc., Rome, New York, has been awarded an $8,973,675 cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract for Lotus software. This contract provides for performing research and development for the evaluation, integration and demonstration of secure processors, in addition to performing research and development for the hardware and software development environments of secure processors. Work will be performed in Rome, New York, and is expected to be completed Aug. 4, 2025. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition, and two offers were received. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $500,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, is the contracting activity (FA8750-22-C-1519).