Purchase Order N0024408P2638

This federal contract was awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to SRI International, a non-profit research institute, for the Lifelong Learning Machine (L2M) program. The $3,764,914 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract seeks to develop new machine learning mechanisms that enable continuous learning and adaptation, similar to biological systems. This aligns with DARPA's mission to advance innovative technologies for national security applications. The contract has no set-aside...

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...

Collaboration.ai, LLC was awarded a $750,000 firm fixed price delivery order against an unspecified Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program phase III contract vehicle by the Department of the Air Force Air Education and Training Command. The award is to provide formal training under an AFWERX challenge for products and services developed during earlier SBIR research phases. Performance will occur in Minneapolis, Minnesota through December 31, 2021. No set-aside designation was...

The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Charles River Analytics, Inc., an employee-owned small business based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a $3.7M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on April 28, 2025, for meta-reinforcement learning-based intelligent neurosymbolic agents for strategic insight. The contract, which extends through July 28, 2028, supports the Air Force's broader initiative to expand game-playing artificial intelligence algorithms into military planning and decision-making contexts....

Collaboration.ai, LLC has been awarded a $1,061,928.60 firm fixed price delivery order for annual program/platform/marketing support from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory in Huber Heights, Ohio. As a self-certified small disadvantaged business, Collaboration.ai will provide research, development, and analytical services to support defense and federal agency initiatives. This delivery order was issued against one of Collaboration.ai's existing indefinite...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a $1.2 million definitive contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation to develop supervised preference-based learning using active scenario. The contract is for research and development to apply interactive learning techniques that efficiently gather feedback from subject matter experts to produce plans meeting preferences using automated planning systems. This aligns with the goals of the original solicitation from the Air...

This is a federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Brown University, a private Ivy League research university, for a project titled "COGNITIVELY-MOTIVATED WORD LEARNING IN EMBODIED VIRTUAL AGENTS". The contract was awarded on June 25, 2019 as an Other Transaction Agreement with a potential value of $1,384,213.00. The contract does not have a set-aside designation. The contract is for research and development services related to developing...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded a Cost Plus Fixed Fee contract to Systems & Technology Research LLC (STR) to develop new artificial intelligence capabilities to support air battle management through its Stratagem program. The $1,577,550 contract, known as "CURRICULUM-HEAVY ACCELERATED LEARNING IN A COMPETITIVE ECOSYSTEM (CHALICE)", aims to advance machine intelligence approaches for complex adversarial environments, capture expertise...

Collaboration.ai, LLC has been awarded an $869,019.60 firm fixed price delivery order against its Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) blanket purchase agreement to provide AFWERX Challenge support and design workshop services. The Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory will utilize Collaboration.ai's research, development, and analytical capabilities to advance innovative solutions leveraging artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. As a self-certified...

This is a $5,855,486.00 definitive federal contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for the Artificial Social Intelligence for Successful Teams (ASIST) program. The contract supports the development of foundational artificial intelligence capabilities to enable synthetic agents to collaborate effectively with human teammates through social intelligence. The contract has no set-aside designation. Key subcontractors on the...