HII Mission Technologies Corp., McLean, Virginia, was awarded a $7,727,439 cost-plus-fixed-fee type contract for Strategic Exploration, Navigation, and Patching of Abstracted Integrations (SENPAI) hardware and software prototypes. This contract will develop tools that reduce the amount of time needed to prepare a system for analysis; develop tools that can model entire systems with enough fidelity to find, exploit, and patch vulnerabilities; develop simulators that have enough precision to model interactions between system components; and to integrate these capabilities to meet SENPAI objectives. Work will be performed at McLean, Virginia, and is expected to be completed by June 20, 2025. This contract was a competitive acquisition, and 19 offers were received. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $3,072,875 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, New York, is the contracting activity. (FA8750-24-C-B001)