North Point Defense awarded nearly $9.5 million contract from U.S. Air Force

ROME, N.Y. — North Point Defense, Inc. of Rome has been awarded a $9.46 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the Phantom Harvest Software prototype.

This cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract provides for the development of an automated method for discovering actionable information within a large volume of network traffic, according to an Aug. 19 contract announcement from the U.S. Department of Defense.

Work will primarily be performed in Rome and is expected to be completed by Aug. 18, 2025. North Point Defense beat out one other company’s bid to win this contract. 

Fiscal year 2022 research, development, rest, and evaluation funds totaling $1,236,500 are being obligated at time of award, per the contract announcement. The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, is the contracting authority.

North Point Defense says it provides critical capabilities to the national-intelligence community by developing communications-network access tools and advanced methods for communications-signal exploitation. The company’s areas of research and development include analog and digital multiplexing, signal conditioning, automated end-to-end processing from radio-frequency detection to intelligence end-product, network exploitation, parallel processing, and system miniaturization. North Point Defense is headquartered at 184 Brooks Road in Rome.