Contract Award: Techwerks LLC (Arlington Heights, Illinois) – $10,578,087

Techwerks LLC, Arlington Heights, Illinois, is awarded a $10,578,087 firm-fixed-price, best-value trade-off contract (HT942523C0063) to provide research support services to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Center for Military Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Support services will include scientific and technical development; program and administrative management; clinical trials; physiological research; psychological research; veterinarian and animal care; statistical analysis; polysomnographic penetrating ballistic-like brain injury research; polytrauma research; mitochondria research; non-conclusive seizures research; molecular mechanisms; biomarkers identification and therapeutic intervention research; field research; projectile concussive impact brain injury research; traumatic brain injury neuroprotection and neurorestoration research. The period of performance is July 20, 2023, to July 19, 2024. The place of performance is Silver Spring, Maryland. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test, and evaluation funds will be obligated at the time of award. The U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, Fort Detrick, Maryland, is the contracting activity.