Central DoD Data Repository Critical for Pentagon AI Applications, AI Company Founder Says

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Krystoffer Miller, 325th Security Forces Squadron operations support superintendent, employs a Ghost Robotics built Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle at Tyndall AFB, Fla. on March 24, 2021. The prototypes were equipped with advanced multi-directional, thermal, and infrared video features that provide artificial intelligence-based threat detection., the Air Force said (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Pentagon data centralization is crucial to the future of military artificial intelligence (AI) applications, an AI entrepreneur told a congressional hearing on July 18th. "AI systems are only as good the data they are trained on," Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based Scale AI, told the House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) cyber, information technologies and innovation (CITI) panel. "The DoD creates more than 22 terabytes of data daily, most of which is wasted...Scale [AI] fully supports the…

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UPDATE: Affirmative Solutions LLC (Cheyenne, Wyoming (SPE2DE-26-D-0003) – $49,500,000)

UPDATE: Affirmative Solutions LLC,** Cheyenne, Wyoming (SPE2DE-26-D-0003, $49,500,000) has been added as an awardee to the multiple award contract for medical and surgical supplies for the Defense Logistics Agency Electronic Catalog, issued against solicitation SPE2DE-22-R-0017/SPE2DE-26-R-0003 and awarded Sept. 28, 2023.

BL Harbert International LLC (Birmingham, Alabama) – $171,506,091

BL Harbert International LLC, Birmingham, Alabama, was awarded a $171,506,091 firm-fixed-price contract for the conversion of existing administrative space to a data center, laboratories, and updated administrative space. Bids were solicited via the internet with three received. Work will be…

ICF Mercantile LLC (Warren, New Jersey) – $150,000,000

ICF Mercantile LLC,* Warren, New Jersey, has been awarded a maximum $150,000,000 firm-fixed-price delivery order (SP8000-26-F-0008) issued against an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (SP8000-26-D-0005) for aerospace grade rayon fiber. This was a sole-source acquisition using justification 10 U.S. Code 3204 (a)(3)(A), as…

Lockheed Martin Corp. (Orlando, Florida) – $328,500,000

Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, Florida, was awarded a ceiling of $328,500,000 undefinitized contract action issued as a letter contract for Department of Defense and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Sniper, Infrared Search and Track, and Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared…

Central DoD Data Repository Critical for Pentagon AI Applications, AI Company Founder Says

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Contract Updates

UPDATE: Affirmative Solutions LLC (Cheyenne, Wyoming (SPE2DE-26-D-0003) – $49,500,000)

BL Harbert International LLC (Birmingham, Alabama) – $171,506,091

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