DARPA Contracts LongShot Unmanned Vehicle Program

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded an $82,582,131 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, excluding unexercised options, for Phase III of the LongShot program. Work will be performed in Poway, California (62%); Adelanto, California (15%); Mukilteo, Washington (6%); Detroit (5%); Tucson, Arizona (4%); Tulsa, Oklahoma (3%); Buffalo, New York (2%); Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona (1%); Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah (1%); and Sedro-Woolley, Washington (1%), with an estimated completion date of October 2025. Fiscal 2023 research and development funds in the amount of $24,459,077 are being obligated at the time of award. This contract is a competitive acquisition in accordance with the original Broad Agency Announcement HR001122S0037. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR001123C0087).