Aircraft Defensive Electro-optical Protection Technologies (ADEPT)

The contractor shall conduct experimentation, evaluation, and assessment; deliver computer software and hardware developed under the effort; and perform tasks including threat software and hardware exploitation, laboratory threat evaluation and assessment, laser-based testing, open-air testing, digital engineering using modeling and simulation, missile aeronautics modeling, aircraft and flare signature modeling, high-performance computing optimization, and prototype countermeasure hardware creation. The contractor must also participate in flight test and evaluation, enter into Associate Contractor Agreements, and comply with security, OPSEC, and program protection requirements.