📋 Tender Overview
Black River System Co. Inc. Utica New York has been awarded a 11967412 cost-plus-fixed-fee type contract for Cognitive Algorithms for Signals Intelligence SIGINT Contested and Degraded Environments CASCADE software and hardware prototype. The scope of this effort is to research unique and innovative techniques and algorithms that provide the identification collection processing and exploitation of electronic communication signals in a moderate to dense co-channel environment. It also includes evaluation of technologies within the Open Architecture Technology Laboratory to validate the viability of developed capabilities for transition into the Air Force intelligence surveillance reconnaissance enterprise. This effort will also encompass the development of hardware and software prototype capabilities at the Rome Research Site and at the Stockbridge Experimentation and Test Facility for open-air calibration and testing to assess both SIGINT and cyber systems and techniques. Work will be performed in Utica New York and is expected to be completed June 3 2025. This award is the result of a competitive acquisition and two offers were received. Fiscal 2021 research development test and evaluation funds in the amount of 760483 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory Rome New York is the contracting activity FA8750-21-C-1505.