This is a $10,200,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract awarded by the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research to Kitware Inc., a software company providing open source solutions. The contract, titled "Architecture, Algorithms, and Innovative Interfaces for Do It Yourself Artificial Intelligence" (A2I2), has a completion date of July 5, 2024. It was awarded on January 4, 2019 under a competitive process and does not have a set-aside designation.
Kitware is performing this contract to develop visualization, image processing, data analytics, and modeling & simulation solutions for federal agencies. Key focus areas include computational imaging, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, high performance computing, and cyber analytics. Kitware has subcontracted a portion of the work to Data Machines Corp., a research services provider supporting DARPA and the Department of the Air Force in areas like commonsense reasoning, data science, and autonomous decision-making.
The A2I2 contract is part of the Department of the Air Force's broader "Science and Technology for Autonomous Teammates" (STAT) program, which aims to develop and demonstrate autonomy technologies for various Air Force mission sets in multi-domain command and control, intelligence processing, and manned-unmanned teaming.
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