Leidos to Research Shared Spectrum for Radar and Communications

​Leidos Inc., Reston, Virginia, has been awarded a $7,890,740 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a research project under the Shared Spectrum Access for Radar and Communications (SSPARC) program (Coexistence Phase 2). The contractor will continue research in the area of spectrum sharing between radar and communications systems to build on prior work carried out in the coexistence thrust of Phase 1. Fiscal 2015 research and development funds in the amount of $5,352,607 are being obligated at the time of award. Work will be performed in Arlington, Virginia (53 percent); Linthicum, Maryland (22 percent); Rochester, New York (12 percent); Sterling, Virginia (5 percent); Ashburn, Virginia (4 percent); Bothell, Washington (2 percent); New York, New York (1 percent); Bowie, Maryland (1 percent) with an estimated completion date of August 2016. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR0011-15-C-0126).