KewW Corp. to Research Radio Frequency Comprehensive Exploitation

The KeyW Corp., Hanover, Maryland, has been awarded a $23,924,180 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Research to Advance Comprehensive Exploitation of Radio Frequency (RF) Research and Development (R&D) program. This contract provides for the R&D of RF exploitation technology with innovative algorithmic approaches for dynamic and flexible sensing, capable of leveraging all available information to maximize sensing and exploitation performance, to address concurrent detection, tracking, imaging, and classification/identification of targets within contested and challenging environments with singular and distributed sensing architectures. Work will be performed in Severn, Maryland; North Andover, Maryland; and Beavercreek, Ohio. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition, and two offers were received. Fiscal 2017 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $119,000 will be obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-17-C-1005).