Under the contract, SAIC will lead a team industrial and academic organizations to develop a process for producing an alternative to petroleum-derived jet fuel from algae at a cost target of $3 per gallon. Work will be done primarily in Georgia, Florida, Hawaii and Texas.
The team will also help develop jet fuel from other agricultural and aquacultural feedstock materials.
The biofuels program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the central research and development office at the Defense Department, looks at energy alternatives and fuel efficiency efforts to reduce the military's reliance on traditional fuel.
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