General Atomics, San Diego, California, was awarded a $14,212,602 firm-fixed-price contract to provide demonstration of the Manhattan Spacecraft Optical Communication Terminal (OCT) to the Space Development Agency (SDA). This contract provides for the demonstration of the capability of an OCT that meets the SDA OCT standard to provide communications in degraded environments. Work will be performed at San Diego, California; Huntsville, Alabama; and Tupelo, Mississippi, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 31, 2024. This contract was a sole source acquisition. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $6,000,000 are being obligated at time of award. SDA, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (FA2401-23-C-0013)