Contract Award: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (Cambridge, Massachusetts) – $23,720,969

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is awarded a $23,720,969 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Full Spectrum Undersea Warfare Innovative Naval Prototype Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Autonomy and Simulation Development and Support effort. This contract provides for work that will focus on development of specialized autonomy using a model-based systems engineering approach. Autonomy will be developed for autonomous platforms to include automated target detection and recognition, autonomous behaviors, signal processors, advanced machine learning techniques and multi-vehicle collaborative autonomy. Work will be performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed in January 2029. The total cumulative value of this contract, including a 60-month base period and no option periods, is $23,720,969. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $20,000; and fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $971,781, are obligated at time of award. Funds in the amount of $20,000 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under N00014-23-S-B001 entitled "Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology." Since proposals are received throughout the year under the Long-Range BAA, the number of proposals received in response to the solicitation is unknown. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-24-C-2204).