Computational cultural understanding

Ended Definitive Contract Awarded Last action

Contract number
HR001122C0034
Awardee
Awarding agency
Obligated
$5,071,300

Award facts

Opportunity
Contract value 100% obligated
$5,071,300.00 Current and potential, with all options
Completion date 100% complete
Current and potential, with all options
Contracting staff
Set-aside
No set-aside
Competition
Full and Open Competition · 23 offers Basic Research
Pricing
Cost No Fee
Place of performance
New York, NY 10027, USA
Legislative mandates

Award details come from SAM.gov/FPDS.

Transactions

Action Obligated Date
Other Administrative Action P00014 $0
Other Administrative Action P00013 $0
Funding Only Action P00012 $903,280
Funding Only Action P00011 $270
Funding Only Action P00010 $451,360
Funding Only Action P00009 $380,000
Other Administrative Action P00008 · Computational cultural understanding (CCU) $0
Exercise an Option P00007 $720,000
Funding Only Action P00006 $559,524
Other Administrative Action P00005 · Computational cultural understanding (CCU) $0
Funding Only Action P00004 $400,000
Funding Only Action P00003 $367,000
Funding Only Action P00002 $700,000
Other Administrative Action P00001 $0
Original award $589,866
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About this award

Written by GovTribe AI ·

This is a $5,071,300 definitive federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York for the Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) program. The CCU program aims to develop natural language processing technologies that can recognize, adapt to, and recommend how to operate within the emotional, social, and cultural norms that differ across societies, languages, and group affinities. The contract has no set-aside designation.

Columbia University is the prime contractor, with several subcontractors including the University of Illinois, Barnard College, Stony Brook University, and the University of California, Davis. These subcontractors will contribute to various technical areas within the program, such as sociocultural norm discovery, cross-cultural emotion recognition, and communicative change detection. The contract supports DARPA's goal of improving situational awareness and effectiveness for DoD operators interacting across diverse cultures and languages.

Subawards

Subcontractor Amount Awarded
University Of California, Davis Computational cultural understanding "the CROSS1/2CULTURAL harmony though affect and response mediation (CHARM) project in the computational cultural… $71,644
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York Computational cultural understanding "statement of work: charm: cross-cultural harmony though affect and response mediation task 1: adapt existing belief and… $181,762
University Of Illinois Computational cultural understanding "the concrete activities performed at uiuc for each area of work will be: task 1: sociocultural norm discovery 1. Define… $125,713
Barnard College Computational cultural understanding "task 1 - sociocultural norm discovery focused on automatic discovery of the kind of sociocultural norms that humans… $45,972
The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York Computational cultural understanding "statement of work: charm: cross-cultural harmony though affect and response mediation task 1: adapt existing belief and… $83,561
Barnard College Computational cultural understanding "task 1 - sociocultural norm discovery focused on automatic discovery of the kind of sociocultural norms that humans… $19,682

Quick answers

Who was awarded contract HR001122C0034?

HR001122C0034 was awarded to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Department of Defense) on January 13, 2022.

How much is contract HR001122C0034 worth?

The government has obligated $5,071,300 on HR001122C0034.

Was contract HR001122C0034 competed?

The extent of competition for HR001122C0034 was full and open competition. The government received 23 offers.

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