Contract Award: Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (San Diego, California) – $80,327,904

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, California, has been awarded an $80,327,904 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet Advanced Research Announcement, which seeks to establish the ability to communicate with military platforms via multiple commercial space internet constellations in various orbital regimes using common user terminal and hardware elements. Work will be performed in San Diego, California, and is expected to be completed Feb. 25, 2027. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $6,000,000; and fiscal 2023 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $25,000,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-23-C-9313).