Federal award (DEFINITIVE CONTRACT, fiscal year 2023)
Recipient: RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Awarding agency: Department of Defense / Defense Contract Management Agency
Funding agency: Department of Defense / Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Period of performance: 2017-04-11 to 2021-04-11
Current total value of award: $9977081
Description: DISPERSED COMPUTING (DCOMP) PROGRAM: RAYTHEON BBN DCOMP TA2 - ALGORITHMS FOR DISPERSED MISSION-AWARE COMPUTATION BASE AWARD.  RAYTHEON'S GENERALIZED NETWORK ASSISTED TRANSPORT (GNAT) EFFORT WILL DEVELOP A DISTRIBUTED, NON-CONVEX OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING MULTI-SENDER, MULTI-RECEIVER MULTICAST APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING DIRECT SUPPORT FOR LATENCY SENSITIVE OPERATION IN ENVIRONMENTS THAT ARE PRONE TO PACKET LOSS AND CONGESTION. INNOVATIONS INCLUDE HOP-BY-HOP LOSS RECOVERY, FORWARDING DECISIONS BASED ON ESTIMATED UTILITY OF INFORMATION AT EACH RECEIVER, ESTIMATION OF MAXIMALLY ACCPETABLE LOSS RATES AMONG A GROUP OF RECEIVERS, AND THE USE OF MULTICAST MESHES TO IMPROVE RESILIENCE AND RESPONSIVENESS.