This $4,868,300 federal contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Southern California (USC) for the Influence Campaign Awareness and Sensemaking (INCAS) program. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for Technical Area 2 of the INCAS program, which seeks to develop capabilities for detecting, characterizing, and tracking geopolitical influence campaigns through automated tools and analysis. The University of Southern California, a leading private research university, is the prime contractor on this award. Major subcontractors include Bunta.in LLC and Trustees of Indiana University, which are providing specialized expertise in areas like population segmentation algorithms and data analysis. The INCAS program aims to enable continual sensemaking of online influence narratives to identify adversary disinformation and manipulation campaigns. The contract has a period of performance through September 2025.
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