N0001422C1004

Aug 2024: Leidos Inc., Reston, Virginia, is awarded a $7,893,226 modification (P00019) to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N0001422C1004) for the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory Science and Technology Division Autonomous Littoral Connector (ALC) project. The ALC project will utilize autonomy to provide maneuver from seabases and throughout the littorals with an unmanned ship-to-objective maneuver connector that is in alignment with the Marine Corps Operating Concept: “How an Expeditionary Force Operates in the 21st Century” and the Marine Corps’ Force Design 2030 guidance for surviving in the weapons engagement zone. This effort integrates autonomy onto connectors (vessels) to deliver equipment, fuel, or supplies from ship-to-shore and throughout the littoral environment; improves autonomous beaching, well deck ops, and payload integration; conducts an Amphibious Assault Direction System spiral; and adds autonomous navigation to multiple vessels. This modification provides for the execution of an option. Work will be performed in Reston, Virginia, and is expected to be completed in August 2026. Fiscal 2024 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $3,799,398 are obligated at time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity.