Contract Award: Sarcos Group LLC (Salt Lake City, Utah) – $13,788,672

Sarcos Group LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, was awarded a $13,788,672 firm-fixed-price, definitive type contract for the purchase of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research effort under the name CYTARTM-HAGMARD for developing, integrating, and validating a new artificial intelligence and machine learning framework for success-based reinforcement learning to improve the overall dexterity, mobility, and safety autonomy of the Guardian DX and XO robotic platforms. This contract provides for continued research and development in enhancing artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled sensing, planning, responding in success-based reinforcement learning while leveraging human instruction with increased dexterity, preventive diagnostics, and fault management. Work will be performed at Salt Lake City, Utah, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 26, 2027. This contract was a sole source acquisition. Fiscal 2023 research, development, test, and evaluation funds in the amount of $3,860,886 are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Sustainment Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8571-23-C-0042).