ARPA-E Awards Booz Allen $550M Contract to Support Energy Technology Innovation - Seite 2

Under the contract, Booz Allen’s multidisciplinary team, which includes over 50 Ph.D.s, will support the entire lifecycle of early-stage technology for ARPA-E with an emphasis on supporting ARPA-E awardees’ efforts to derisk their emerging technologies. Leveraging deep mission knowledge, Booz Allen will identify climate and energy challenges that would benefit from emerging technology, then work to build and support an ecosystem to innovate—including developing competitions to fuel innovation, like “Shark Tank”—followed by technical reviews and funding to make true impact.

More than 160 Booz Allen employees support the company’s ARPA-E work, bringing a whole-of-organization approach to the portfolio through its engineers, scientists, analysts, and project managers with capabilities including digital/IT transformation, project management, finance, and AI and machine learning (ML). Work on the contract will take place in Washington, DC, at ARPA-E’s headquarters.

Booz Allen has been instrumental in recent ARPA-E successes including the first-ever hybrid-electric flight to Alaska, the first commercial direct Air Capture facility, the world’s first dedicated manufacturing line for thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells, and more. Since Booz Allen helped stand up ARPA-E and create its technology-to-market model:

• 230 projects have attracted more than $12.1 billion in private-sector, follow-on funding
• More than 150 new companies have been formed
• 7,318 peer-reviewed articles have been published
• 1,120 new U.S. patents and 405 licenses have been created

“With this work, we’re not looking for merely incremental improvements to our energy innovation ecosystem—we’re seeking game-changing, disruptive solutions that radically improve U.S. economic prosperity, national security, and environmental wellbeing,” said Ben Getto, principal at Booz Allen and program manager of the ARPA-E work. “Booz Allen is proud to be ARPA-E’s mission partner in empowering America’s energy researchers and technologists with funding, technical assistance, and market-readiness efforts to quickly catalyze cutting-edge areas of energy research for the betterment of our world.”