ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD – Project Manager Intelligence Systems & Analytics (PM IS&A) in partnership with Army Research Laboratory (ARL), through the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Adelphi, MD, competitively awarded a contract via a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) to two vendors [Booz Allen Hamilton & Red Hat]. With a combined value of up to $2M, this contract will support research efforts for Project Linchpin with specific regard to the principles of Traceability, Observability, Replaceability, and Consumability (TORC). The TORC framework seeks to ensure model and data integrity, data openness, and modular open system architecture (MOSA) design.

The award will have a 6-month period of performance (PoP), along with option years of no more than five years.

This award is the first of several anticipated contracting actions that will directly support Project Linchpin, the Army’s first program of record that will deliver artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities at scale by creating a collaborative and competitive ecosystem of industry partners to deliver trusted Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) capabilities.

Project Linchpin is a collaboration between Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO IEW&S), Army Futures Command’s Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C), ARL, C5ISR Center, and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) / Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO).
“PEO IEW&S will use Project Linchpin to develop and deploy trusted AI & ML capabilities to intelligence, cyber, and electronic warfare sensor systems. This contract is a significant first step to decouple AI from

software, decompose components within a MLOPs pipeline, and wrap layers of security around the entire process. These design principles will allow the Army to leverage the best of breed technology available across industry, academia, and government” said Col. Chris Anderson, Project Manager for Intelligence Systems and Analytics.