The University of Central Florida (UCF) was awarded a $6,228,711.00 definitive cost-no-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the SOCIALSIM program. The contract, which has a completion date of February 28, 2022, is for research and development in support of DARPA's mission. UCF, a large public research university, has a history of conducting prime and subcontract work for various federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and...
This is a $6,316,764.00 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The University of Central Florida (UCF) Board of Trustees Office of Research, doing business as UCF. The contract is for the SOCIALSIM program, which does not have a set-aside designation. UCF, a large public research university in Orlando, Florida, has extensive experience conducting research and providing services to federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense, Energy, and...
This is a $4,000,000 Definitive Contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) to develop personalized autonomous agents for countering social engineering attacks. The contract was awarded on September 21, 2018 with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2020. The work involves developing passive and active defense layers, socio-behavioral modeling, profiling, and countering techniques to...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $1,799,803 Firm Fixed Price contract to Five Directions, Inc., a veteran-owned small business, for the "Super Synthetic User Persona Emulator" project under DARPA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. This contract was awarded on July 13, 2023 with a completion date of July 13, 2025. The contract supports DARPA's mission to develop game-changing technologies for national defense, leveraging the...
The University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants Division, doing business as USC, has been awarded a $1 million other transaction agreement by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct social analysis of code to counter human engineering threats. As the prime contractor, USC will perform the work at its Dockweiler, California location from June 2021 through March 2023. DARPA seeks to gain insights through this research effort to help address challenges...
Leidos Inc. was awarded a $4.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct research and development in support of DARPA's Social Simulation, Operational Evaluation and Visualization program. The work will be performed over a 30-month period ending in May 2023. The award was made under DARPA's Information Innovation Office Broad Agency Announcement, which seeks proposals across multiple areas including artificial intelligence, data...
The University of Southern California (USC) has been awarded a $17,554,040 federal contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for Phase I of an unspecified project. The contract is a definitive contract with a cost-no-fee pricing type, with a completion date of February 29, 2012. USC, a leading private research university, will leverage its expertise in areas like engineering, computer science, and social sciences to conduct cutting-edge research and provide innovative...
The University of Maryland, College Park (prime contractor) was awarded a $4.064 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to provide research program support services. The period of performance is through December 2023 with no set-aside designation specified. University of Southern California Department of Contracts and Grants (subcontractor) will also support the effort. DARPA drives the development and application of emerging and...
This federal contract award with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a delivery order under a larger Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) held by the San Diego State University Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that serves as an auxiliary to San Diego State University. The $24,015.90 task order is for "UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT 3" services, which likely refers to the use of undergraduate students to support various research and development efforts. The IDC...
This is a $393,291.94 delivery order awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for support of DARPA's Phase II Distributed Systems Simulation Program. The contract is a cost-plus-fixed-fee arrangement and does not have a set-aside designation. The University of Maryland is the prime contractor, and the work will be performed in College Park, Maryland. Through this contract, the university is providing research, engineering,...