BAE Systems Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $7,768,282 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for research and development to cultivate innovative machine learning and fusion algorithms in order to advance automatic target recognition (ATR), machine learning, and multi-level, multi-source fusion technology to improve algorithm performance. Work will be performed in Burlington, Massachusetts, and is expected to be completed Aug. 12, 2026. Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $600,000 are being obligated at the time of award. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8650-21-C-1158).