This federal contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to RTX Corporation, doing business as Raytheon Technologies Research Center, for the Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program. The $999,956 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a completion date of November 30, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. The ASIMOV program aims to develop benchmarks to objectively and quantitatively measure the ethical difficulty of...
This is a federal contract award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Lockheed Martin Corporation, a major defense contractor, to develop benchmarks for measuring the ethical capabilities of autonomous systems. The contract, valued at $6,183,133.00, is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Definitive Contract with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2026. The contract is part of DARPA's Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program, which aims to...
This is a $5,723,397.00 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. The contract is for the Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program, which aims to develop benchmarks to measure the ethical capabilities of autonomous systems in military applications. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. UNSW, a non-profit educational institution, will create...
This is a $8,261,001.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Kitware Inc., a small business software company, for the Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program. The contract aims to develop prototype generative modeling environments to objectively measure the ethical difficulty of various military autonomy use cases and assess the readiness of autonomous systems to operate within those scenarios....
This federal contract award, valued at $6,270,311.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Systems & Technology Research LLC (STR), a for-profit limited liability company based in Woburn, Massachusetts. The contract is for the development of "LETHAL INTELLIGENT AUTONOMY" capabilities, under a Definitive Contract with a Cost Plus Fixed Fee pricing type. The contract has a period of performance through October 31, 2026. The contract award stems...
This is a $6,995,555.00 firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Covar, LLC, a small disadvantaged business doing business as Covar Applied Technologies Inc. The contract is for the Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values (ASIMOV) program, which aims to develop benchmarks to objectively measure the ethical difficulty and readiness of autonomous systems for military applications. The contract has an ultimate...
This is a $4,183,869.00 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on December 8, 2017 for the System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware (SSITH) program. The contract is a cost-no-fee arrangement with an expected completion date of April 7, 2021. MIT, a private nonprofit research university, has extensive experience conducting advanced research and providing technical services to federal...
This is a $1,339,457.00 definitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Peraton Labs Inc., doing business as Applied Communication Sciences. The contract is for the DARPA DCASE (Deferred Concretization Adaptive Software Environment) program, focused on developing technologies to enable software engineers to create and verify adaptive software using a deferred-concretization methodology. The prime contractor, Peraton Labs...
This is a $792,422 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Aptima Inc., a for-profit small business manufacturer. The contract will develop a systematic framework to mathematically represent, evaluate, test, optimize, and train complex socio-technical systems capable of learning, under the Human-Machine Teams (THERMOTEAMS) program. No set-aside was used. Aptima has subcontracted with Galois, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, and...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $991,400.00 Other Transaction Agreement to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the "Serial Interactions in Imperfect Information Games Applied to Complex Military Decision-Making (SI3-CMD)" project. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. MIT is a private research university with extensive experience conducting advanced research for federal agencies like the Department of Defense. The...