Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Air Force awards MIT Lincoln Labs FFRDC $3BN Sole Source

Defense.gov Contracts for Monday, April 27, 2015

AIR FORCE

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $3,061,852,854 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the operation of the Lincoln Laboratory Federally Funded Research and Development Center. Contractor will apply advanced technology to problems of national security. Research and development activities focus on long-term
technology development as well as rapid system prototyping and demonstration. Work will be performed in Lexington, Massachusetts, and is expected to be complete by March 31, 2020. This award is the result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $600,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, is the contracting activity (FA8702-15-D-0001).

Background/Related

MIT Lincoln Laboratory 
The areas that constitute the core of the work performed at Lincoln Laboratory are sensors,  information extraction (signal processing and embedded computing), communications, and integrated sensing and decision support, all supported by a broad research base in advanced electronics.
Research at the Laboratory includes projects in air and missile defense, space surveillance technology, tactical systems, biological and chemical defense, homeland protection, communications, cyber security, and information sciences. The Laboratory takes projects from the initial concept stage, through simulation and analysis, to design and prototyping, and finally to field demonstration.

Two of the Laboratory’s principal technical objectives are
  1. (1) the development of components and systems for experiments, engineering measurements, and tests under field operating conditions and 
  2. (2) the dissemination of information to the government, academia, and industry.

Since Lincoln Laboratory's establishment in 1951, the national security challenges have evolved from defending against strategic confrontations to addressing adversaries with poorly defined borders and ideologies. The core competencies required to provided technologies to respond to this changing reality-systems analysis, advanced electronic device technology, rapid prototyping, field testing, and ultimately effective transition to the user community-have become hallmarks of the Laboratory's work and will ensure its continued service to the nation.
 
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