Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a $732 million Air Force contract to operate a software research center.
The five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract renewal calls for the university to run the school’s federally-funded Software Engineering Institute, according to the Department of Defense contract announcement. The contract, which has an option for five more years, has a maximum ceiling of $1.73 billion, according to Carnegie Mellon.
The Software Engineering Institute, which is sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, is the only federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) focusing specifically on software-related security and engineering issues.
