This $8,395,225.00 definitive contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to develop cross-cultural language understanding technologies under the Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) program. The CCU program aims to improve situational awareness and effectiveness for Department of Defense (DoD) operators interacting across societies, languages, and cultural groups. The contract does not have a set-aside...
This is a $4,483,122.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Language Computer Corporation, a small for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, for the Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) program. The CCU program aims to develop cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve situational awareness and effectiveness for Department of Defense (DoD) operators interacting across societies, languages, and cultural groups. The...
This is a federal contract award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to SRI International, a non-profit research and development institute, for the Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) program. The $5,970,343.00 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a completion date of May 30, 2025 and was awarded on December 27, 2021. The CCU program aims to develop cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve situational awareness and effectiveness for Department of...
This is a $4,951,282.00 cost-no-fee definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Monash University, a prominent international research university located in Australia. The contract is for the Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) program, which aims to develop cross-cultural language understanding technologies to improve situational awareness and effectiveness for Department of Defense (DoD) operators interacting across societies, languages, and...
This is a $979,495 definitive contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to develop "Interpretable and Robust Artificial Intelligence" technologies. The contract does not have a set-aside designation, indicating open competition. The work aligns with DARPA's mission to advance cutting-edge research and development of transformative defense technologies. This award builds on Columbia...
This is a $11,517,142.00 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 cross-cultural language understanding technologies under the Computational Cultural Understanding (CCU) program. The contract, which has no set-aside designation, aims to improve situational awareness and effectiveness for Department of Defense (DoD) operators interacting across societies,...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,666,666.00, was granted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is for a project titled "LEARNING VISUALLY GROUNDED LANGUAGE MODELS FROM VIDEO" and is scheduled for completion by December 31, 2022. This work is being...
This is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee delivery order contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU) LABOR SUPPORT. The contract has a ceiling value of $3,806,674.00 and a completion date of May 2, 2025. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government entity and 1862 land grant college, will provide research and engineering services to support national objectives across various technical...
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University, has been awarded a $883,979 Firm Fixed Price Definitive Contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the "EMBEDDED ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE" project. The contract has a period of performance through July 31, 2025. Columbia University is a renowned private research institution with a long history of collaborating with government agencies on cutting-edge research...
This is a federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University through its Sponsored Projects Administration Division. The contract, valued at $6,882,655.00, is for "Maintaining Enterprise Resiliency via Kaleidoscopic Adaptation" and does not have a set-aside designation. The contract involves Columbia University conducting advanced research and development in...
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.