Washington DC (TFC)— Johns Hopkins University was recently awarded a Department of Defense (DoD) contract, according to the agency’s website. Worth $13 million dollars, the contract covers a wide range of tactical area’s geared towards offensive operations. The lucrative agreement represents the latest in a history of cooperative work between the prestigious college and the defense community.

The contract was announced on DoD’s website on February 7^th, 2018 alongside nine others across the Army, Navy, and Air Force. John Hopkin’s contract, however, was the only one filed under “Washington Headquarters Services”. It calls on the university to provide “assessments and alternatives of offensive capabilities within the domains of air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace.” Specifically, Johns Hopkin’s University will examine “missions and warfare area’s that asymmetricallymitigate threat effectiveness, impose cost, and/or create ambiguity in adversary decision-making.”

It’s not the first time the college has received a giga-sized pay off from the defense community. Back in 2015, the university won an even larger contract worth over $400 million by US Special Operations Command. Like its more recent counterpart, this contract was for research and development. The job’s detail included “theoretical analyses, exploratory studies, and/or experiments in various fields of science and technology.” It’s a broad range of prospects which might’vealso included engineering, or “the practical application of investigative findings” involving scientific or technical theories related to US Special Operations.

Yet another contract worth $7 million was awarded in March of 2015 with John Hopkin’s Applied Physics Lab. It was very similar to the one issued just days ago, covering all area’s of DoD operation from land to cyberspace. The input would help inform offensive operations to streamline and augment tactical analysis. Johns Hopkins University, besides hosting a recent speech by Defense Secretary James Mattis, also medically trains thousands of US Military personnel. The college participated in US military drills and had an adjunct professor serve as DoD’s Deputy Assistant of Defense for Strategy and Force Development.