Contract Award: Minco Technologies (Cookeville, Tennessee) – $13,609,093

Minco Technologies, Cookeville, Tennessee, was awarded a ceiling $13,609,093 cost-plus-fixed-fee for Modular Operationally Resilient Fuel-Flexible Extreme-Efficiency UAS-Engine System. This contract provides to develop and demonstrate a technology that can potentially reduce the required logistical fuel supply chain by 50 percent. Work will be performed at Cookeville, Tennessee, and is expected to be completed by Aug. 30, 2028. This contract was a competitive acquisition and one offer was received. Fiscal 2024 research, development, technology and engineering (RDT&E) funding in the amount of $221,861; and fiscal 2025 RDT&E funding in the amount of $378,139, is being obligated at time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Site, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA2394-25-C-B056).