The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $549,486 Other Transaction Agreement to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop the Environment-Driven Conceptual Learning program. This research aims to advance artificial intelligence capabilities by exploring how concepts are acquired through unsupervised interaction with complex environments, taking inspiration from human development. UCSD will apply its expertise in cognitive science, computer science and...
This delivery order from the Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground tasks Carnegie Mellon University with developing technologies to automate target recognition using mobile cooperative and autonomous sensor systems in an AI-assisted approach. Valued at $16.2 million, the cost-no-fee contract runs from August 2020 through January 2022. Major subcontractors include the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station,...
The federal contract award with ID FA875018C0103 was granted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to HRL Laboratories, LLC, a for-profit research and development company owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors. The $8,342,833 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, known as the "SUPER TURING EVOLVING LIFELONG LEARNING ARCHITECTURE (STELLAR)", has a completion date of March 31, 2022 and does not utilize any set-aside designations. The contract aims to develop new...
Delta Learning, Inc. has been awarded a $149,700.60 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I contract by the Washington Headquarters Service (Defense) to investigate the feasibility of leveraging generative artificial intelligence to enhance the realism, adaptability, and scalability of scenario-based training for U.S. Special Operations Command. The contract is structured as a definitive, firm fixed-price engagement with performance to be conducted in Sandwich, Massachusetts....
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...
The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $74,774 firm fixed price purchase order to Unanimous A.I., Inc. under a Small Business set aside designation. This award is part of the STTR Phase I research program and will support the company's efforts to develop collaborative artificial intelligence technologies to optimize curriculum retention in military training environments. Work will be performed in Arlington, Virginia through August 2023, with the goal of...
This is a $729,586 firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to Humanproof, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company, to support the development of adaptive and intelligent training technologies under Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Topic 4.2.1. The contract has a 12-month base period with two 12-month option periods. As a subcontractor, Design Interactive, Inc., a woman-owned small business, will support the project...
This federal contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Unanimous A.I., Inc., a for-profit small business, under a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II effort. The $1,799,895.00 firm fixed price purchase order contract is for the company to provide research and development services focused on leveraging collaborative artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, and large language models to optimize military team performance and...
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded a $179,994 firm-fixed price Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Interactive Aptitude LLC, a small business based in Wilmington, Massachusetts. The "AUTONOMOUS SPACE TRAINING FOR ROBUST OPERATIONS AND EDGE-DRIVEN GROWTH IN EXPERIMENTATION (ASTROEDGE)" contract aims to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms with diverse, high-quality space situational awareness data. The...
The U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded Systems & Technology Research LLC (STR), a Woburn, Massachusetts-based defense contractor, an Other Transaction Agreement for prototype research and engineering services focused on Artificial Intelligence for Small Unit Maneuver. The contract, valued at $13.1 million with an ultimate completion date of October 31, 2025, was awarded on February 10, 2021, with no set-aside designation. This award reflects the Department of Defense's...