Leidos joins Anduril in U.S. Air Force design deal

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    "title": "Leidos joins Anduril in U.S. Air Force design deal - The Defence Blog",
    "excerpt": "The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos an $85 million ceiling contract for digital design tools meant to help engineer future aircraft, the second company in as many days to win a spot under the same research program that Anduril Industries joined a day earlier. The Air Force Research Laboratory made the award to Leidos, a Reston, Virginia-based technology and engineering contractor, under the VOLARE program, formally known as Digital System-Level Mission-Driven Integrated Design Methods for Aerospace Systems. Like the earlier Anduril award, this is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, meaning the $85 million is a ceiling rather than guaranteed funding, with the Air Force issuing individual task orders as work is needed. Work will take place in Dayton, Ohio, and the contract runs through Sept. 18, 2036, a 10-year window that closely mirrors Anduril’s own VOLARE deal, which was awarded one day earlier and runs through Sept. 17, 2036. Both awards stem from the same competition, in which eight companies submitted offers. The near-identical contract numbers, Anduril’s FA2391-26-D-B013 and Leidos’s FA2391-26-D-B015, along with matching $85 million ceilings and the shared eight-offer count, indicate the Air Force Research Laboratory structured VOLARE as a multi-award IDIQ, selecting more than one contractor to compete for task orders rather than picking a single...",
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