The Energetics Technology Center has won a potential six-year, $15.6M contract from the U.S. Navy to develop an automated platform for the Department of Defense's research and development community to build ecosystems for innovating energetics technology.
DoD said Tuesday the Indian Head, Maryland-based nonprofit organization will perform data collection and analysis as part of the Automated Global Energetics Science and Technology Awareness project.
Contract work is intended to address a requirement under the Fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act's Section 253, according to the Pentagon.
The Office of Naval Research awarded the project after a competitive acquisition process via the “Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science & Technology.".
The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a base value of $7.7M over 36 months and an option value of  $7.9M