Booz Allen expands research work with $85M AFRL design contract
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Nick Wakeman
The 10-year award focuses on integrated design of aircraft, propulsion and power systems.
Booz Allen Hamilton has won a 10-year, $85 million contract with the Air Force to develop digital design methods that tie aerospace vehicle engineering directly to mission outcomes.
The company beat out seven other competitors for the 10-year contract with the Air Force Research Lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, according to the Defense Department’s Tuesday awards roundup.
The Digital System-Level Mission-Driven Integrated Design Methods for Aerospace Systems contract covers research to build a vehicle system design product and thermal management system design methodologies.
The Air Force first floated the idea in a 2024 request for information, explaining that it wanted an approach that focuses on improving an integrated system instead of optimizing individual components in isolation.
The RFI focused on integrating airframes, propulsion, power and thermal management design. Other areas of interest included military utility analysis, model-based systems engineering, data science, research computing and the DevSecOps software practice.