Contract Award: R Cubed Engineering LLC (Palmetto, Florida) – $19,964,957

R Cubed Engineering LLC,* Palmetto, Florida, is awarded a $19,964,957 cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N6833524F0207) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N6833522G0041). This order procures 1200 KIV-79 end cryptographic units (ECU) to meet the new requirements for both National Security modernization for ECUs, and the latest mode five Department of Defense and North Atlantic Treaty Organization transponder requirements for positive cooperative combat identification. These systems are fundamental in reducing fratricide, for entry into controlled airspace, coalition battlespace management, Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems and to be used in standalone and platform integrations universally employed by the Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Army, in support of Small Business Innovation Research Phase III effort for Topic N142-102 entitled "Micro Identification Friend of Foe (IFF)". Work will be performed in Palmetto, Florida (90%); Lexington Park, Maryland (5%); and St. Inigoes, Maryland (5%) and is expected to be completed in September 2026. Fiscal 2024 procurement (Defense-Wide) funds in the amount of $19,964,957 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity.