DARPA Awards Hydra Phase 2 Contract

The Boeing Co., Huntington Beach, California, has been awarded a $21,885,490 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a research project under the Hydra Phase 2 program. Work will be performed in Huntington Beach, California (74 percent); Los Angeles, California (5 percent); Santa Fe Springs, California (4 percent); El Cajon, California (2 percent); Long Beach, California (2 percent); Attleboro, Massachusetts (2 percent); Huntsville, Alabama (2 percent); Richardson, Texas (1 percent); Brea, California (1 percent); Orange, California (1 percent); and Mesa, Arizona (1 percent), with an estimated completion date of September 2018. Additionally, a total of 10 contractors will perform five percent of the effort at various locations (each location under one percent of the effort). Fiscal 2016 research and development funds in the amount of $8,500,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR0011-16-C-0114).