Contract Award: Uncharted Software Inc. (Toronto, Canada) – $19,305,329

Uncharted Software Inc., Toronto, Canada, was awarded a $19,305,329 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a research project under the Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction and Modeling (ASKEM) program. The ASKEM program will create a knowledge-modeling simulation ecosystem, empowered with the artificial intelligence approaches and tools needed to support expert knowledge- and data-informed decision making in diverse missions and scientific domains. Work will be performed in Toronto, Canada; and Washington, D.C., with an expected completion date of January 2026. Fiscal 2022 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $3,017,311 are being obligated at time of award. This contract was a competitive acquisition under an open broad agency announcement and 29 offers were received. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (HR001122C00142).