Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2021)
Recipient: VERUS RESEARCH, LLC
Awarding agency: Department of Defense / Defense Contract Management Agency
Funding agency: Department of Defense / Department of the Army
Period of performance: 2018-11-08 to 2022-05-31
Current total value of award: $7977113.68
Description: CONTRACT AWARD IS IN SUPPORT OF THE DIRECTED ENERGY TEST (DET) BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA).  THE SOLUTIONS FOR RAPID ACQUISITION AND DEMONSTRATION (SRAD) WILL FOCUS ON DIRECTED ENERGY (DE) COUNTER ELECTRONICS AND DE AREA DEFENSE.  THIS EFFORT WILL RAPIDLY IDENTIFY DE TEST AND EVALUATION SHORTFALLS RELATED TO EMERGING DE TECHNOLOGIES AND DETERMINE TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS TO QUICKLY DEVELOP SOLUTIONS.  THIS EFFORT WILL DELIVER A SURROGATE HIGH POWER MICROWAVE (HPM) SOURCE FOR SUITABLE EFFECTS TESTING ON INFRASTRUCTURE TARGETS, AN ENHANCED SOURCE PROTOTYPE FOR WAVEFORM AGILITY FOR USE ON RECOVERABLE AIRBORNE PLATFORMS, AND ASSOCIATED HARDENED INSTRUMENTATION TO MEASURE SOURCE OUTPUTS.