# Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE) Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) Contract

Canonical: https://abierto.us/opportunities/fa700024r0003

- Solicitation number: FA700024R0003
- Notice type: Award notice (first published as presolicitation)
- Status: Awarded to Southwest Research Institute for $250,000,000.00
- Department: Department of the Air Force
- Agency: Department of the Air Force
- Contracting office: FA7000 10 Cons LGC (FA7000)
- NAICS: 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Product or service code: AJ12 General Science And Technology R&D Services; General Science And Technology; Applied Research
- County: Bexar County (FIPS 48029). https://abierto.us/counties/bexar-county-tx-48029
- City: San Antonio. https://abierto.us/cities/san-antonio-tx-4865000
- First posted: March 20, 2024
- Last posted: May 21, 2025
- SAM.gov: https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/2a5856d37f9d43659b2cfa3a9cff7182/view

## Description

The Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE) is located in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DFME) at The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). The Academy is the Air Force training ground for many of its future leaders. More specifically, the USAFA mission is to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become leaders of character, motivated to lead the Department of the Air Force in service to our nation.

The CAStLE has a two-fold mission that supports aging structures and material degradation. First, is to perform a wide range of research and technology development projects focused on delivering critical science and technology products required to understand material degradation in structures and systems to various Government, academic and commercial sponsors.

Second, but no less important, is to educate, train, inspire and otherwise prepare future generations that might become the core of the science and technology community within the Government and the general professional population. Successful execution of the CAStLE mission provides analysis, tools, solutions, information and expertise to the safe and economical sustainment of systems and structures--primarily those of the Department of Defense (DoD).

The CAStLE mission also supports the USAFA mission by bringing Air Force-relevant research and engineering activities into the classroom, thus better preparing cadets to be Air Force engineers and officers upon graduation.

## Award on USAspending

- Recipient: Southwest Research Institute (UEI PB11V1KH3KV4)
- Contract: FA700025D0016
- Obligated: $0.00
- Competition: Full and Open Competition, 4 offers received
- Link: award number FA700025D0016 equals the contract number; same awarding office FA7000 (high confidence)
- Record: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_IDV_FA700025D0016_9700/


## Publications

- March 20, 2024: Presolicitation, due April 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM EDT. Notice 43f5271a85774ddab4f16bbbf15476a7. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/43f5271a85774ddab4f16bbbf15476a7/view
- August 15, 2024: Solicitation, due October 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM EDT. Notice 23daf3c0c978424d984dd26c4a4cb90c. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/23daf3c0c978424d984dd26c4a4cb90c/view
- September 5, 2024: Solicitation, due October 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM EDT. Notice a7cf90da97234097ae7a6d2c241d7791. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a7cf90da97234097ae7a6d2c241d7791/view
- October 9, 2024: Solicitation, due October 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM EDT. Notice 1d3228c6ba53410cac8610bdbaab327a. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/1d3228c6ba53410cac8610bdbaab327a/view
- October 15, 2024: Solicitation, due October 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM EDT. Notice 61b384d811794ab9bea4d109d5c18b2c. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/61b384d811794ab9bea4d109d5c18b2c/view
- March 19, 2025: Solicitation, due March 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT. Notice 4560c7a911a942539e0fe89dd9591f17. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/4560c7a911a942539e0fe89dd9591f17/view
- March 19, 2025: Solicitation, due March 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT. Notice b3ebfb6958494e60bcf03e7c068c3259. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/b3ebfb6958494e60bcf03e7c068c3259/view
- May 21, 2025: Award notice. Notice 2a5856d37f9d43659b2cfa3a9cff7182. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/2a5856d37f9d43659b2cfa3a9cff7182/view

## Points of contact

- DOMINIC CARUSONE, dominic.carusone@us.af.mil, 7192085057
- Patrick Martinette, patrick.martinette@us.af.mil, 7195560096

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