Contract Award: Frequency Electronics Inc. (Uniondale, New York) – $20,263,099

Frequency Electronics Inc.,* Uniondale, New York, is awarded a $20,263,099 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Mercury Ion Atomic Clock. This contract provides for a compact mercury ion clock for use as a next-generation Department of Defense atomic clock, which is currently under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Work will be performed in Uniondale, New York, with an expected completion date of Jan. 11, 2024. The maximum dollar value, including a 24-month base period, one 24-month option period and one 12-month option period is $20,263,099. Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation (Defense-wide) funds in the amount of $2,072,000 are obligated at time of award and will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured under long range broad agency announcement (BAA) N00014-21-S-B001. 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 (N00014-22-C-1031).