Contract Award: Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (Boulder, Colorado) – $200,000,000

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colorado, was awarded a $200,000,000 multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders for research and development. This contract provides for innovative research and development in order to identify, mitigate and protect avionics systems against cyber‐attack, and prototype agile, next‐generation platform and system of systems architectures to enable rapid integration and fielding of enhanced mission system capability. The location of performance is Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and work is expected to be completed by Aug. 23, 2028. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and three offers were received. The Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-21-D-1004).