Contract Award: BlueHalo (Huntsville, Alabama) – $24,476,289

BlueHalo, Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a $24,476,289 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Satellite Assessment Center's overarching objectives include accelerating the advancement of the directed energy modeling, simulation and analysis, assessment expertise, and highly technical capabilities to safeguard strategic U.S. space interests. This contract provides for research and development into predictive analysis, satellite modeling, resiliency research, and innovative testing environments for new methodologies to assess natural and other man-made directed energy effects on space systems. The contract will support data aggregation, perform risk analysis, and implement modern database management to improve the ability to meet growing demand for space assessments from the Satellite Assessment Center's mission partners and the Space Domain Awareness community. Work will be performed at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and is expected to be completed by March 31, 2029. This contract was a competitive acquisition under Air Force Research Laboratory's open advance research announcement Directed Energy Technology Experimentation and Research. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $269,000 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, is the contracting activity (FA9451-24-C-X022).