Contract Award: Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) – $18,040,918

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, is awarded a $18,040,918 cost-only cooperative agreement to test a project that will determine if a single intravascular cannula can be used to manage and resuscitate complex polytrauma patients from the point of injury through evacuation. Work will be performed in Baltimore, Maryland (45%); Boston, Massachusetts (24%); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (5%); Lowell, Massachusetts (9%); and Nashville, Tennessee (16%). Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funds in the amount of $1,050,000 will be obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The period of performance is September 2024 to March 2027. This agreement was competitively procured via a DARPA broad agency announcement solicitation (HR001124S0024) on the beta.SAM.gov website. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, San Diego, California, is the contracting activity (N66001-24-2-4024).