Science Applications International (SAI) Awarded $13 Million Contract by DARPA and U.S. Air Force
Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) has been awarded a prime contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). SAIC will create a research framework for the development of reading system technologies and evaluate the performance of these technologies in support of DARPA's Machine Reading program. The contract has a five year period of performance and is valued at more than $13 million.
Under the contract, SAIC will design and implement a complete research framework that supports the development of Reading System technologies. This framework will support progress in the field by program participants and a broad community of researchers in the artificial intelligence and natural language processing communities. SAIC will also conduct performance evaluations of technologies developed by program participants.
SAIC, Inc. provides scientific, engineering, systems integration, and technical services and solutions to various branches of the U.S. military, agencies of the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other U.S. government civil agencies, state and local government agencies, foreign governments, and customers in select commercial markets. [SM]
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