Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, has been awarded a $9,854,404 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, excluding unexercised options, for the Cancun program. This contract provides for distributable nodes to measure the high-frequency (HF) radio environment for improved warfighter situational awareness in the critical HF radio band. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas (66%); Utica, New York (14%); Seattle, Washington (15%); and Chapel Hill, North Carolina (5%), with an expected completion date of December 2024. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test, and engineering funds in the amount of $2,127,667 are being obligated at time of award. This contract was a competitive acquisition under broad agency announcement HR001123S0014, and 10 offers were received. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR001123C0116).
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