The University of Southern California (USC) Department of Contracts and Grants Division has been awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) with a $10,000,000 ceiling value by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate. The IDC, titled "PHASE III BOAS USC NATIONAL CENTER FOR RISK AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF TERRORISM EVENTS (CREATE)," enables DHS to issue task orders for research, analysis, and services related to counterterrorism...
The federal contract IDV is a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) awarded by the Science and Technology Directorate, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to the University of Houston System, a Hispanic-serving institution of higher education. The BOA, valued at $84,000,000, has an ultimate completion date of August 17, 2026 and covers four thrust areas: explosives detection, mitigation and response, border security and immigration, critical infrastructure resilience, and...
The key details of this federal contract IDV award are as follows: The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded an Other Transaction IDV contract to the University of Southern California (USC) on April 2, 2024. The contract, valued at a ceiling of $996,516.00, is for the EMHAT PHASE 1 FUNDING / EXPLORING DIVERSITY IN MULTI-HUMAN AI TEAMS program. As a prominent private research university, USC will leverage its extensive expertise across engineering, health sciences,...
The federal contract IDV is an Other Transaction (OT) agreement awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a defense-focused federal agency, to the University of Southern California (USC). The OT award, titled "COMPLEMENTING HUMAN INTELLIGENCE TO RECOGNIZE OPPONENT NARRATIVES (CHIRON)", has a ceiling value of $1,000,000 and aims to leverage USC's expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, and research support services to...
The University of Southern California (USC) was awarded a $1,000,000 Other Transaction Indefinite Delivery Vehicle (IDV) contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the "MEASUREMENT BASED QUANTUM INFORMATION AND TRANSDUCTION (MEASQUIT)" program. The IDV, which has a 5-year period of performance, enables DARPA to issue task orders to USC for various artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-human team research and development activities. As a leading private...
The federal contract IDV 70RSAT21G00000012 is a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) awarded by the Science and Technology Directorate, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to the University of Illinois, a renowned public land-grant research university. With a ceiling value of $84,000,000.00 and a performance period through August 17, 2026, this multiple award IDV will enable the University of Illinois to provide a wide range of research, products, and services to the...
The University of Southern California (USC) has been awarded a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) for $362,637,336 over a period ending September 22, 2029. This IDC, titled "UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CONTRACT - RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN ADVANCED MODELING & SIMULATION - LINKING ENTERTAINMENT AND DEFENSE," is focused on conducting research and development activities in the areas of...
The federal contract IDV award is for the "FOUNDATION MODELS FOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY (FOUNDSCI)" program, awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a defense agency. The prime contractor is the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a U.S. state government entity, 1862 Land Grant College, and educational institution. The IDV has a ceiling value of $999,886 and is not set-aside. It enables UCLA to provide comprehensive research, training, and program...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate awarded a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), a public research university, with a $45 million ceiling value and a period of performance through March 2026. Under this BOA, DHS can issue task orders for UNO to provide research, analysis, and program support services across homeland security and national security domains. Key task orders awarded under this BOA include:...
The federal contract IDV award, identified as 70RSAT22G00000006, is a Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) issued by the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, a prominent non-profit land-grant research institution. The BOA has a ceiling value of $23,000,000.00 and an ultimate completion date of August 3, 2027. The initial task order under this BOA, valued at $95,842.00, is a Firm Fixed Price Delivery Order...