A aerospace manufacturer with a presence in Albuquerque has been awarded a $91 million contract from the U.S. Air Force.
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., which has an office off Gibson Boulevard near the Albuquerque International Sunport, recently received a cost-plus fixed-fee contract for Trusted and Elastic Military Platforms and Electronic Warfare System Technologies Resilient and Agile Mission Systems, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
This contract provides for the leveraging of current advances in open system architecture standards and approaches; commercial high-speed networking technologies; heterogeneous processing; precision timing; cybersecurity and cyber-resiliency; modeling and simulation; and advanced computing paradigms such as cloud infrastructure to enable advanced mission system capability.
Work will be performed in Ohio and the company's headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. It is expected to be complete by April 5, 2026.
The award was the result of a competitive acquisition process, with two offers received. The Air Force Research Laboratory, which is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, is the contracting activity.
A subsidiary of Ball Corp., Ball Aerospace & Technologies is a manufacturer of spacecraft, component and instruments for national defense, civil space and commercial space applications. In addition to its Colorado headquarters, it has smaller offices in around Colorado, Missouri, Maryland and Ohio.
