In a bid to provide warfighters with rapidly responsive communications or intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, the Air Force awarded up to $99 million to a company making micro high-altitude balloons. Under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract, Colorado-based Urban Sky was awarded just $1,500 last month , but the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract could total up to $99 million through the end of the decade. Urban Sky designs, builds and manufactures “small, rapidly deployable, low-cost, payload-agnostic stratospheric balloons”...
