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The Air Force Research Laboratory added $10.6 million to Vanderbilt University's Assured Neuro-Symbolic Software Prototype contract on July 13, 2026, raising its cumulative value to $16.2 million as AI research continues in Nashville through September 2028.
Read the story →AFRL awarded Vantage Analytical LLC a $499M ceiling IDIQ on July 8, 2026 for the SSHINE program, building and testing experimental space hardware at Kirtland AFB through 2036. Nine offers were received on the small-business set-aside; $2.27M was obligated at award.
AFRL awarded Canyon Consulting LLC a $49.7M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to mature satellite navigation technologies that do not rely on GPS, running through October 2031, as the Pentagon hedges against jamming and spoofing threats.
AFRL closed its industry feedback window June 15, 2026, on the revised draft solicitation for the $10B AMAC IDIQ—an S&T R&D vehicle for Air Force and Space Force—after cancelling the original solicitation in April 2026 over acquisition strategy flaws.
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded General Atomics-Integrated Intelligence Inc. a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract worth $49.7M for GALAWAR spectrum geolocation research at Wright-Patterson AFB, advancing AFRL's Sensors Directorate electromagnetic superiority programs.
Quantum Space, led by former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, is merging with a SPAC at a $1.2B post-transaction valuation to fund its Ranger spacecraft for DoD cislunar and counter-space missions. The company holds six existing DoD contracts.
Boeing won a competitively awarded $200M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory for multidisciplinary aerospace vehicle technology research, integration and transition, with work in St. Louis through May 2037.
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate in Rome, New York awarded Parsons Government Services a $28.8 million task order for field site support spanning research, development, engineering, and maintenance operations at a facility that develops command-and-control, ISR, and cyber technologies.
Applied Research Associates landed a $111.5M IDIQ from the Naval Research Laboratory on May 8 for high-performance computing R&D support, including cryptographic capability development and network protocol design at the NRL's Washington, D.C. facility.
March 27, 2026 cost-plus-fixed-fee award (one offer received) funds full life-cycle development of C2-SpISR software under GARDEM 2 — Global Application Research, Development, Engineering & Maintenance. Through May 2031.
March 10, 2026 award to DCS Corporation supporting AFRL's Multi-Domain Sensing Autonomy Division (AFRL/RYA). Follows the 5-year, $48.4M MEAMS contract previously held by DCS subsidiary Infoscitex.
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