SRI to Research Interoperable Surveillance Capabilities

SRI International, Menlo Park, California, is being awarded a $7,778,244 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for basic and applied research for methodologies and technologies that support rapid development, evaluation and deployment of interoperable surveillance, tracking, security and access control solutions to provide increased capabilities to the warfighter. These efforts will provide a modular and open system architecture approach for creating systems and system of systems across domains to develop sensors and systems that support a variety of aviation platforms/systems. Work will be performed in Princeton, New Jersey (75 percent); and Stonington, Connecticut (25 percent), and is expected to be completed in April 2017. This contract was competitively procured under a broad agency announcement; one offer was received for this effort.  Fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation (Defense) funds in the amount of $55,000 will be obligated at time of award, all of which will expire at the end of the fiscal year. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (N68335-16-C-0185).