Westinghouse Government Services LLC, Hopkins, South Carolina, was awarded a $16,969,993 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-orbit Nuclear Power (JETSON) high power mission application program. This contract provides for the JETSON effort to mature relevant technologies, conduct analyses, trade studies, and explore risk reduction strategies to investigate how a high power, nuclear fission-system could be implemented from a subsystem, spacecraft, and architecture standpoint. Work will be performed in Hopkins, South Carolina, and is expected to be completed by Dec. 29, 2025. This contract was a competitive acquisition and three offers were received. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $16,969,993 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, is the contracting activity (FA9453-23-C-X005).
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