Definitive Contract HR001120C0123

This federal contract award to Kitware Inc. is for the Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program, Technical Area 1, which is being led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The contract has a ceiling value of $13,995,230.00 and is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee type contract. The objective is to develop technologies to automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified multi-modal media assets such as text, audio, images, and video, in order to defend against large-scale disinformation attacks. The original solicitation was a pre-solicitation notice with no set-aside designation. Kitware is the prime contractor, and it is collaborating with several subcontractors including The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, Columbia University, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, and Eduworks Corporation. The SemaFor program aims to create innovative semantic technologies for analyzing media to identify if it has been generated or manipulated, determine its origin, and assess if it was created for malicious purposes.