The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded nine companies 10-year, $4 billion contracts for research and development work focused on technologies to counter weapons of mass destruction.
DTRA received a total of 11 bids for the contract, which covers an initial five-year base period and a five-year optional ordering period, the Defense Department said in an award summary Wednesday.
The winners are as follows:
- Applied Researcher (current position)
- Booz Allen Hamilton (Newcomer)
- Leidos (current)
- Noblis (Newcomer)
- Parsons (newcomer)
- Peraton (current)
- SRC (Newcomer)
- Signalscape (Newcomer)
- Two Six Technologies (Newcomer)
The Defense Department notice did not detail how the award money would be split among the three pools of contracts.
Pool 1 is technology-oriented and encompasses artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, software development, etc. Pool 2 focuses on operations and countermeasures in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear environments. Pool 3 is primarily about targeting, information operations and unconventional warfare.
Award recipients will compete for task orders to support DTRA's mission of reducing and eliminating the incentives for U.S. adversaries to develop and possess their own weapons of mass destruction. DTRA also lists threats as likely to come from fragile or failed states.
If all options are exercised, the order period will extend through May 2034.
DTRA has obligated approximately $1.5 billion in task order spending on current contracts that were first awarded to seven companies in 2013. Applied Research Associates is the largest recipient of these obligations, with $881.2 million, according to GovTribe data.
