This is a $11,987,986.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to SRI International, a non-profit research and development institute, to develop the Semantic Forensics (SemaFor) program. The SemaFor program aims to create technologies that can automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified multi-modal media assets, such as text, audio, images, and video, to help defend against large-scale disinformation attacks.
The contract has no set-aside designation. It involves developing semantic detection algorithms to determine if media is generated or manipulated, attribution algorithms to infer the source, and characterization algorithms to reason about malicious intent. The work includes subcontractors Epidata LLC for detecting manipulated speech, the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University for multimedia analytics, and the Research Foundation for the State University of New York for software development. This contract supports DARPA's broader mission of advancing defense technologies and national security capabilities through innovative research and development.
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