$9.2M Engineering Change Contract Awarded to Southwest Research Institute for Cancun Phase Two

Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, has been awarded a $9,234,661 cost-plus-fixed-fee engineering change proposal contract modification (P00008) to a previously awarded contract (HR001123C0116) for the Cancun Phase Two Option One program. This contract modification provides for distributable nodes to measure the high frequency (HF) radio environment for improved warfighter situational awareness in the critical HF radio band. Work will be performed in San Antonio, Texas (66%); Utica, New York (14%); Seattle, Washington (15%); and Chapel Hill, North Carolina (5%), with an expected completion date of December 2027. Fiscal 2025 research, development, test, and engineering funds in the amount of $470,000 are being obligated at time of award. The base contract was a competitive acquisition under broad agency announcement HR001123S0014, and 10 offers were received. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity