Purchase Order FA864921P0714

TACOM Life Cycle Management Command awarded a $203,966.30 definitive contract to A2 Labs, LLC for Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer research on drone detection and classification using convolutional neural networks, visual transformers, and spiking neural networks on April 16, 2025, under a total small business set-aside. The effort, titled "QUICK-SWARM: Quick Unmanned Identification and Control with Knowledge Based Swarm Detection," delivers personnel, facilities,...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $3 million Other Transaction Agreement to Robotic Services Inc., doing business as Aerial Applications, to develop and deliver a bundled unmanned aerial vehicle hardware system with analytics software. The system will utilize photogrammetry and vegetative analysis tools to support environmental management activities. A key component is VAST, an artificial intelligence search engine for analyzing physical data captured...

This federal contract award, valued at $5,256,073, was issued by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the "AUTOMATED ELECTRO-OPTICAL MOBILE TARGET CLASSIFICATION WITH DEEP LEARNING (EO-MOBILE)" program. The contract is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee definitive contract with no set-aside designation. The work under this award is related to the broader "Multi-Sensor Exploitation for Tactical Autonomy" program, which seeks research...

This federal contract award to Sri International, a non-profit research and development institute, was made by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for a "MACHINE-LEARNING FOR AUTOMATED TACTICAL TARGET RECOGNITION SYSTEM" project. The $4,656,518.58 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a completion date of September 27, 2024 and does not have a set-aside designation. As a prime contractor, Sri International has subcontracted with Moog Inc. to provide a GPU development kit, and with...

This federal contract award from the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to X-Sight Systems LTD, a for-profit organization based in Israel, is for the prototyping of a sensor or suite of sensors and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) algorithms. The purpose is to detect, locate, and classify potentially hazardous objects or conditions on surfaces based on sensor-generated data. The contract, valued at $2,420,947.00, was awarded on May 25, 2021 and has an ultimate completion date...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $750,000 firm-fixed price purchase order to Image Insight, Inc., a small business manufacturer, under the SBIR Phase II program. The contract is for the development of a low-cost, widespread security camera-based system to detect commercial unmanned aerial systems. This award appears to be part of a larger $900 million multiple award indefinite delivery vehicle (IDV) held by Image Insight to provide analytical and advisory services assessing...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $226,611 firm fixed-price purchase order contract to Clarifai, Inc., a small business, for an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Visual Inspection system for fighter jet engines. This is a Phase II SBIR program contract with a completion date of September 27, 2024. Clarifai specializes in computer vision and natural language processing capabilities, and has previously provided AI services to the Air Force, including a deep learning...

The Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded an Other Transaction Agreement to Sierra Nevada Company, LLC, a woman-owned defense contractor, on January 15, 2025, for development of a passive infrared wide-area surveillance sensor system capable of initial threat detection, bearing, and cueing for air defense capability. The agreement has a ceiling value of $21,638,654 and ultimate completion date of December 15, 2026. This OTA sits outside the FAR and provides flexible prototyping and...

Drone Go Home, LLC, doing business as Aerodefense, has been awarded a $1.2 million firm fixed price contract by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to deliver a Mobile Pilot-Controller and Drone Detection System. This Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II contract will support the development of technologies to detect unauthorized drones and mitigate potential risks they pose to Department of Defense operations and assets. Work will be performed...

On January 22, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded an Other Transaction Agreement valued at $43.7 million to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC for Air Defense Capability (ADC) Phase 2. The contract calls for development of a passive infrared wide area surveillance sensor system capable of providing initial threat detection, bearing, and cueing functionality—commonly referred to as "find, fix" capability in military air defense operations. Performance will be...