Contract Award: Spire Global Subsidiary Inc. (Vienna, Virginia) – $14,000,000

Spire Global Subsidiary Inc., Vienna, Virginia, has been awarded a $14,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for phased array research. This contract will develop and deploy a multi-satellite, multi-phenomenology, intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance space mission that leverages high-technical readiness level satellite systems and radio frequency collection payloads paired with a commercial off the shelf multi-spectral imaging system to deliver the Department of Defense a signal geolocation data product with coherent imagery for enhanced situational awareness. Work will be performed at Albuquerque New Mexico; Bolder, Colorado; and Vienna, Virginia. Work is expected to be completed by Sept. 28, 2028. This contract was a competitive acquisition with one offer received. Fiscal 2023 research and development funds in the amount of $14,000,000 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque New Mexico, is the contracting activity (FA9453-24-C-X046). (Awarded June 28, 2024)