Dreaming about features to find trojans
Ended Definitive Contract Awarded Last action
- Contract number
- W911NF20C0045
- Awardee
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Arm Inc. UEI KLS4PCFQK9D8
- Awarding agency
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ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground
Army Contracting Command, Department of Defense
- Obligated
- $5,463,424
Award facts
- Contract value 100% obligated
- $5,463,424.00 Current and potential, with all options
- Completion date 100% complete
- Current and potential, with all options
- Funding agency
- Office of the Chief of Staff Headquarters, Department of Defense
- NAICS code
- 541715 Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
- Competition
- Full and Open Competition · 3 offers Basic Research
- Pricing
- Firm Fixed Price
- Place of performance
- San Jose, CA 95134, USA
Award details come from SAM.gov/FPDS.
Transactions
| Action | Obligated | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Other Administrative Action | $0 | |
| Exercise an Option | $1,532,000 | |
| Funding Only Action | $2,115,500 | |
| Funding Only Action | $521,872 | |
| Exercise an Option | $902,124 | |
| Original award | $391,928 |
About this award
This is a $5,463,424.00 firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Office of the Chief of Staff (U.S. Army Headquarters) to Arm Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit company, to conduct research and development on detecting Trojans in artificial intelligence (AI) models. The contract has no set-aside designation.
Two subcontractors were awarded work under this contract: the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). UMBC will develop an approach to profile the decision boundary of the model under test and determine the probability that the evaluated AI model is Trojaned. UCSD will train a conditional generative adversarial network (GAN) to search for potential perturbations that could transform data samples from one class to another, enabling a characterization of the model boundary.
This contract supports the Army's efforts to ensure the integrity of AI systems and detect the presence of Trojan attacks. As a leading research university, UCSD has significant expertise in areas like cognitive systems and machine learning that are relevant to this work. The involvement of UMBC, another prominent academic institution, further indicates the technical complexity and importance of this project to the Army.
Quick answers
Who was awarded contract W911NF20C0045?
W911NF20C0045 was awarded to Arm Inc. by ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground (Army Contracting Command) on July 28, 2020.
How much is contract W911NF20C0045 worth?
The government has obligated $5,463,424 on W911NF20C0045.
Which agency awarded contract W911NF20C0045?
ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground (Army Contracting Command) awarded W911NF20C0045, with funding from Office of the Chief of Staff (Headquarters).
Was contract W911NF20C0045 competed?
The extent of competition for W911NF20C0045 was full and open competition. The government received 3 offers.
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