FA865020D5211

Oct 2019: University of Dayton Research Institute, Dayton, Ohio, has been awarded a $46,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research in the area of advanced behavior and life prediction of aerospace materials. This contract explicitly seeks to develop and transition aerospace structural material discovery, processing, performance assessment, and prediction tools in effort to enable shortening of the material, component, and system design cycle; rapid qualification and insertion of improved materials and efficient components; rapid certification of aerospace structures; increases in efficiency and readiness of turbine engine components; structural protection against high-energy events; and decreases in system sustainment costs. Work will be performed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, and is expected to be completed Oct. 15, 2026. This award is the result of a “One Step, Closed Broad Agency Announcement” and there was only one proposal received. Fiscal 2019 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $2,018,628 will be obligated at the time of award via Task Order 0001, FA8650-20-F-5212; and $256,912 will be obligated at the time of award via Task Order 0002, FA8650-20-F-5213. The Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity. (FA8650-20-D-5211).