Booz Allen Hamilton was awarded a ten-year $550-million contract from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to support the advancement of high-potential, high-impact, early-stage technologies that generate, store, and use energy in entirely new ways to reduce USemissions, improve energy efficiency, and increase the resiliency and reliability of the US power grid.

Booz Allen was instrumental in the standup of ARPA-E in 2009 and has been a key mission partner since then. The company serves as primary technical and operations support to ARPA-E.

Under the contract, Booz Allen’s multidisciplinary team will support the entire lifecycle of early-stage technology for ARPA-E with an emphasis on supporting ARPA-E awardees’ efforts to de-risk their emerging technologies. 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, followed by technical reviews and funding.

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.