Purchase Order FA864923P0622

Peraton Labs Inc., doing business as Applied Communication Sciences, was awarded a $2.386 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support the Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception program. Under this contract, Peraton will conduct research to develop theoretical foundations, algorithms, and evaluation frameworks to enable machine learning systems to resist deception across visual, audio, and video modalities. This supports...

This is a $100,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Bluehalo Labs, LLC, doing business as Intelligent Automation. The contract is for research and development of adversarial machine learning and deep learning techniques for network security applications, under SBIR topic A18-050. This award supports the Army's efforts to develop advanced artificial intelligence and cybersecurity...

This federal contract award, valued at $6,775,001.00, was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a new generation of defenses against deception attacks on machine learning (ML) under the Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception (GARD) program. The contract has an ultimate completion date of August 16, 2024 and does not utilize any set-aside designations. The original solicitation sought innovative research...

This is a $3,399,607 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Siemens Corporation for research and development of optimized reinforcement learning agents for network defense operations. The contract is not designated as a set-aside. The contract is based on DARPA's Cyber Agents for Security Testing and Learning Environments (CASTLE) program, which seeks to develop an AI toolkit to instantiate realistic network environments and train cyber...

This federal contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to HRL Laboratories, LLC, a corporate research and development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. The contract, titled "AUTOMATED MULTISOURCE ADAPTATION VIA ZERO-SHOT INFORMATION GENERATION (AMAZING)", is a $4,021,499.00 cost plus fixed fee definitive contract for research into machine learning and artificial intelligence. The contract has two main subcontractors: the...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD) awarded Strategy Robot Inc. a $1 million Other Transaction Agreement contract to apply computational game theory artificial intelligence to diplomacy. The contract will be performed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania over an 18-month period concluding on November 2, 2023. Strategy Robot Inc. will utilize other transaction authority to develop game theory and artificial intelligence techniques to support DOD modeling and simulation of international...

This is a $1,201,378 firm fixed-price purchase order contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to Exploration Institute LLC, a small business, for the "Anomaly Detection Actively Protecting-Security (ADAPT-Security)" project. The contract is part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, Phase II. The work will be performed in Cheyenne, Wyoming and is scheduled for completion by June 27, 2025. This award demonstrates Exploration Institute's...

This is a $4,178,232 federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to HRL Laboratories, LLC, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company. The contract is for the "COGNITIVE AID FOR VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS" project, which involves developing computational cognitive models to support human subjects experiments and vulnerability analysis tools. The contract is a Cost Plus Fixed Fee Definitive Contract with no set-aside designation. HRL Laboratories serves as...

This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Boston Fusion Corp, a woman-owned small business. The contract, valued at $149,967.00, is for the "DEEP AGENT WITH SELF-LEARNING FOR HUMAN EVENTS RECOGNITION (DASHER)" research and development project. Boston Fusion Corp, a company that specializes in statistical machine learning, deep learning, and other advanced analytics, will be...

This $6,544,242 federal contract award, titled "DEEP ATTENTION-BASED REPRESENTATIONS FOR EXPLANATION (DARE)", was issued by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to SRI International, a non-profit research institute, without a set-aside designation. The contract is for developing advanced attention-based deep learning models to enable explainable visual question answering on images and videos. Major subcontractors include the University of California, San Diego, the...