The U.S. Air Force has added 17 companies to positions on a $499 million contract that aims to develop anti-tampering technology that can be used to protect critical programs and information from adversarial attacks.
The multi-year contract is part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, which originally launched a competitive acquisition and received 20 offers.
“The development of these solutions enables the necessary protection of critical program information from adversarial tamper efforts. Work will be performed in the continental United States and is expected to be completed Feb. 28, 2030,” stated the Department of Defense (DoD).
“Fiscal 2024 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $1,000 per awardee are being obligated at time of award,” added the DoD.
Award winners include:
- Battelle;
- Boeing;
- Charles Stark Draper Laboratory;
- Chip Scan;
- General Dynamics’ mission systems business;
- GE Aviation Systems;
- Honeywell International (Nasdaq: HON);
- Idaho Scientific;
- Kratos Defense and Security Solutions;
- L3Harris Technologies;
- Lockheed Martin;
- Mercury Systems
- Microsemi SOC;
- Northrop Grumman
- Radiance Technologies;
- RTX’s Raytheon subsidiary; and
- Sabre Systems.
