The Pentagon awarded more than $1 billion in contracts to Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, in recent months.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, awarded a five-year contract worth just shy of $500 million on Wednesday to the lab.
It’s for engineering, development and research services capabilities, according to the Department of Defense contract notice.
“This contract provides for establishing and maintaining an essential capability for engineering or developmental work calling for the practical application of investigative findings and theories of a scientific or technical nature,” the Pentagon notice reads.
According to HigherGov, the award gives DARPA a means to draw on the lab’s research and engineering capability as requirements arise.
On Sept. 22, the same lab received a separate five-year contract worth $390 million from the Air Force for research support in the areas of space science and engineering, information technology, re-entry test beds and combat systems. Air Force Research Laboratory Space Warfare Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, issued the contract.
The lab also received a two-year contract worth $199 million on July 20 to support the Sentinel program, an effort to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. That contract was awarded by Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill Air Force Base in Utah
