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: 2015-02-19 to 2017-12-31
Current total value of award: $3624804
Description: ROBUST AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SPEECH (RATS) PHASES 4 AND 5: FOLLOW ON EFFORT TO THE RATS PROGRAM. THE OBJECTIVES OF PHASE 4 AND 5 ARE TO INVESTIGATE NEW TECHNIQUES FOR ADAPTATION OF THE ALGORITHMS SO THAT THEY PERFORM WELL ON FIELD-COLLECTED-SIGNALS THAT ARE NEW, UNSEEN, AND PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE FOR TRAINING, CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ADAPTATION THROUGH FREQUENT EVALUATIONS, AND COLLECT AND ANNOTATE MORE FIELD DATA FOR THE ADAPTATION AND EVALUATION PROCESS.