Aurora earns DAPRA mod pact

Aurora Flight Sciences of Manassas, Va., has been awarded a $10,457,663 modification (P00003) exercising the first option period on a seven-month base Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract (HR0011-14-C-0014), with one 16-month option period. The contractor shall provide the personnel, equipment, materials, tools, facilities, and program management and technical effort to design, develop, integrate, test, and deliver the contractual requirements of the program for building two X-Plane aircraft. This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. Locations of performance are Manassas (81 percent); Indianapolis (13 percent); Tucson (1 percent); and Ventura, Calif. (5 percent), with an Oct. 10, 2015, performance completion date. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2014 through fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation in the amount of $10,457,663. The contracting activity is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia. (Source: DOD 06/09/14) Central Mississippi Note: Aurora-Columbus, Miss., fabricates and performs final assembly of composite aerostructures for defense and commercial aerospace customers.