The Air Force Research Laboratory has issued a broad agency announcement on a funding opportunity worth potentially $31.5 million to pursue aerospace system advancement.
An updated BAA posted Thursday on SAM.gov calls for interested parties to submit proposals for the Aeroscience Collaborative Research and Development program through Jan. 16.
The ACoRD program will involve efforts to transfer ideas, methods, tools and processes from the basic research and applications communities to the military laboratory environment; evaluate the performance of technologies; quantify integrated systems; and bring new platforms with accompanying analysis, modeling and simulation and experimental data to both commercial industry and the warfighter.
AFRL expects to issue a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with an estimated base value of $17.5 million and two options totaling a combined $14 million.
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