Contract Awards

The Veterans Health Administration has lengthened its contract with AppliedVR, under which the company is providing an at-home chronic lower back pain, or CLBP, treatment program. Issued by the administration’s VA Immersive division, the extended award will support continued access to RelieVRx, AppliedVR’s virtual reality-based immersive therapeutics program, the company announced from Los Angeles, California on Wednesday.

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L3Harris Technologies has secured a potential $49 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide multiband radio waveform porting and associated services. The contract covers the porting of Mobile User Objective System 3.2 and Single Channel Ground Air Radio System Frequency Hop 3 to the Multiband Radio II Family of Systems, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.

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Raytheon, an RTX company, has secured a three-year, $31.3 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division to design, build and test two directed energy weapon prototype systems for the U.S. Navy and Air Force. The company said Tuesday it will deliver high-power microwave antenna systems that will use directed energy to enable the detection of airborne threats as part of the Directed Energy Front-line Electromagnetic Neutralization and Defeat program.

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The Defense Logistics Agency Logistics Operations has awarded LMI a contract to help enhance research and development methods and improve purchase order lead time estimates for new systems. 

The Potomac Officers Club will host the 10th Annual Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 31 to discuss the latest developments in the defense technology sector. Register here and save a seat at the highly anticipated event.

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NASA has chosen Ball Aerospace to initiate the first phase of a mission aimed at expanding the scientific community’s knowledge about the sun's middle coronal structure. Under the contract, the company said Monday it will conduct a conceptual study for the space agency's proposed Extreme ultraviolet Coronal Mass Ejection and Coronal Connectivity Observatory mission.

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GE Aerospace landed a potential five-year, $68.1 million cost-sharing contract to participate in NASA's Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core turbofan engine project. The agency announced Friday that GE Aerospace will cover at least half of the cost of HyTEC's Phase 2 Integrated Core Technology Demonstration program for the duration of the contract, which takes effect Feb. 15, 2024.

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Palantir has received a potential $115 million award from the U.S. Army to extend its work on the service branch’s Vantage platform. Under the one-year contract, Palantir will continue to support the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems by operating and upgrading the open data and analytics platform, the Denver, Colorado-based company announced on Friday.

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