HQ086023C6000

May 2023: The University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, New York, is being awarded a noncompetitive cost contract for an estimated value of $14,999,266. Under this new contract, the contractor will support the Missile Defense Agency’s Innovation, Science, and Technology pulsed laser lethality investigations by exploring the lethality modes and utility of pulsed lasers for the Department of Defense (DOD) community. This effort shall conduct tests to collect anchoring data sets in support of benchmarks to verify physics-based pulsed laser lethality modeling. The models, simulations, and lethality toolsets developed shall support analysis against a variety of DOD threats across ground, sea, air and space domains. Upon government direction, models of relevant threats and threat support systems shall be combined with trajectories to inform a full continuity lethality and military utility picture. The work will be performed in Rochester, New York, with an estimated completion date of May 2026. The period of performance is May 31, 2023, to May 30, 2026. One offer was solicited and one offer was received. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $14,999,266 are being obligated on this award. The Missile Defense Agency, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (HQ0860-23-C-6000).