Contract Award: Stellar Sciences LLC (Huntsville, Alabama) – $24,940,816

Stellar Sciences LLC, Huntsville, Alabama, was awarded a $24,940,816 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Modeling Applications for Next-Tier Initiatives and Capabilities of Realistic Engagements. This contract provides for developing and enhancing modeling, simulation, and analysis tools to strengthen the Satellite Assessment Center's core capabilities and integrate them within a flexible and extensible enterprise-scale software and information technology; coordinating and supporting current and novel tools for predicting satellite radiometric signatures, estimating satellite physical characteristics and attitude, and other Space Domain Awareness challenges; exploring artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to accelerate innovation and implementation; and delivering modeling and simulation tool documentation tailored to government needs. Work will be performed at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and is expected to be completed by April 18, 2029. This contract was a competitive acquisition under Air Force Research Laboratory's open advance research announcement Directed Energy Technology Experimentation and Research. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $100,000 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, is the contracting activity (FA9451-24-C-X018).