UTICA — Black River Systems Company Inc. was recently awarded a nearly $12 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion engineering change proposal modification to a previously awarded U.S. Air Force contract for Cognitive Algorithms for Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Contested and Degraded Environments software and hardware. The contract adjustment is to expand signal-processing libraries to include updated signal of […]
UTICA — Black River Systems Company Inc. was recently awarded a nearly $12 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion engineering change proposal modification to a previously awarded U.S. Air Force contract for Cognitive Algorithms for Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Contested and Degraded Environments software and hardware. The contract adjustment is to expand signal-processing libraries to include updated signal of interest for 5G and to integrate developed forward processing capabilities into enterprise-compatible open-architecture systems, according to a Feb. 6 contract announcement from the U.S. Department of Defense. This enables asynchronous operations, developing scalable SIGINT architectures for cognitive radio and machine learning, and researching, developing, implementing, and testing hardware architectures that have agility to be integrated on the current platform but are also applicable to future platform development. The modification brings the total value of the contract to almost $23.97 million. Work takes place at Black River Systems’ Utica office and is expected to be completed by Oct. 3, 2026. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test, and evaluation funds of $100,000 and fiscal 2024 operational system development funds of nearly $1.43 million are being obligated at the time of award, per the contract announcement. The Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome is the contracting authority. Black River Systems designs, develops, deploys, and analyzes radar, infrared, acoustic, and electronic-warfare sensing systems for the Department of Defense and prime contractors. The company, headquartered at 162 Genesee St. in Utica, also has an office in Syracuse, as well as locations in Ohio, Minnesota, and California.