Two Companies to Conduct Cyber Research

Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp., Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $12,211,473 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HR0011-15-C-0097), for a research project under the Edge-Directed Cyber Technologies for Reliable Mission program. Fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $2,331,395 are being obligated at time of award. Vencore Labs Inc., doing business as Applied Communication Sciences (ACS), Basking Ridge, New Jersey, has been awarded an $11,762,572 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (HR0011-15-C-0098).The period of performance is 36 months, with two 18-month phases. These awards were competitive acquisitions under an open broad agency announcement that received 21 proposals. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is the contracting activity.