SwRI to Receive up to $49 Million for Efficient, Alternative Energy Technologies

Work will support U.S. Air Force energy goals

SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been awarded a contract worth up
to $49 million from the U.S. Air Force. The contract will focus on
research and development efforts to implement and transition energy
efficiency and alternative energy technologies to meet U.S. Air Force
goals.

This Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract award supports the
Air Force Research Laboratory Rapid Assessment of Technologies and
Energy for the Advanced Power and Technology Office. IDIQs are contract
vehicles that fund work tasks over specified periods of time. The SwRI
contract period is for seven years.

“SwRI is developing and testing a range of novel energy systems
applicable from space exploration to next-generation automotive
platforms to renewable energy power grids,” said SwRI’s Dr. Kent
Coulter, co-program manager for the contract award. “This diversity in
our expertise has provided us the opportunity to work with AFRL on areas
of interest to the U.S. Air Force.”

The first task of the contract, funded for $500,000, is to design,
develop and demonstrate data center modeling techniques to determine
methods to optimize energy consumption.

“Data centers use nearly 2.5 percent of the energy produced in the
United States,” said SwRI’s Greg Fletcher, leader of the first task
order and co-program manager for the IDIQ award. “SwRI is working with
the U.S. Air Force to optimize its data centers, which will have
sweeping benefits across government and industry, and reduce energy
consumption throughout this rapidly growing sector.”

For more information, visit https://www.swri.org/industries/power-generation-utilities.

https://www.swri.org/press-release/swri-receive-49-million-efficient-alternative-energy-technologies

Contacts

Southwest Research Institute
Deborah S. Deffenbaugh, 210-522-2046
[email protected]