HR001121C0134

Jun 2021: Raytheon Co., El Segundo, California, was awarded an $8,842,171 cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency research project for the Fast Event-based Neuromorphic Camera and Electronics (FENCE) program.  The FENCE program seeks to develop and demonstrate a low-latency, low-power, event-based camera and a new class of signal processing and learning algorithms that uses combined spatial and temporal (spatio-temporal) information to enable intelligent sensors for tactical Department of Defense applications.  Work will be performed in Goleta, California (53%); Cambridge, Massachusetts (17%); El Segundo, California (15%); McKinney, Texas (10%); Tempe, Arizona (3%); New York, New York (1%); and Tewksbury, Massachusetts (1%), with an expected completion date of May 2025.  Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $4,864,730 are being obligated at time of award.  This contract is a competitive acquisition in which nine proposals were received in response to broad agency announcement HR0011-21-S-0001.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR0011-21-C-0134).